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KINGDOM  OF  ISR/EL:, 

Trom  its  inception  undoi  Joshua,  its  first  President,  in  the  Yea: 
of  the  Workl  2353,  to  the  second  advent  of  Christ 


ed   first;  as  typical  under  its  three  fii 

UTD  TUB  UNITED  STATES  SHOWN  TO  EL  Till  TUIKb 
AND  LAST  OF  THOSE  HEAD 


ftitsidered:  Second,  as  Antitypicaf,  and  the  Conl 
itc  States  shown  to  be  the  Grand  Antitype  in 
its  first  appearance,  to  ultimate  in  the 
i  hi  »uc  oi  the  Prince  of  the  House  oi  D: 


Dedicated  to  the  Rev.  S.  D.  BALDWIN 

▲UTIIOtt  OF  "  AKMAGEDDON,' 

\ND  TO  UlS  MEMORY  IF  DEAD. 


Q-i7    5,   JP.   PIIILPOT'X 


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LAiUFIELD,    TEXAS: 

\  y .  3 


1'  ft  E  F  A  C  E 


We  come  before  the  public  for  the  first  time,  never  having  written  even  a 
short  newspaper  article  in  life  ;  and  in  doing  so,  it  may  not  be  amiss  for  us  to 
state  that  we  were  induced  to  do  so  from  a  thorough  conviction  that  there  was 
much  written  in  the  Bible  of  a  strictly  political  character,  applicable  to  the  past, 
present  and  future  of  our  country,  that  has  never  been  noticed  or  understood  as 
such.  We  were  impressed  with  a  sense  of  duty  to  God,  ourselves  as  a  nation, 
and  to  mankind  in  general,  to  take  up  the  subject  of  Bible  Teachings  Politically  , 
and  discuss  it  in  a  few  short  notes— noticing  a  few  of  the  many  Prophecies  that 
speak  and  teach  nationally,  that  apply  strictly  to  modern  times,  or  "latter  days" 
— embracing  the  rise,  progress  and  fall  of  the  United  States  of  America,  and  of 
the  rise  of  three  nationalities  out  of  the  fallen  United  States,  to  ultimate  in  one; 
the  Confederate  States  foretold  in  Prophecy  as  being  the  chief  of  the  three,  and 
to  absorb  the  other  two,  as  above  intimated  :  and  how  and  when  this  Union  upon 
the  Confederacy  was  to  be  effected,  and  the  present  war  have  an  end,  &c. 

We  make  no  apology  for  what  we  have  written — claiming  the  right  accorded 
to  all — of  free  speech.  That  right,  with  others,  we  are  now  battling  for;  and  as 
we  claim  it,  we  would  withhold  it  from  none  ;  and  shall  expect  that  others,  in 
the  exercise  of  that  right,  may  take  ground  against  us  upon  some  points  in  these 
notes.  If  they  do  not,  it  will  be  strange  indeed;  for  we  occupy  positions  in 
opposition  to  "  names  renowned;"'  in  opposition  to' tenets  "hoar  with  centuries."' 

We  are  well  aware  that  we  have  not  handled  the  subject  as  it  deserves  to  be  ; 
nor  are  our  notes  more  than  an  introduction  to  the  vast  subject.  Volumes  might 
and  should  at  once  be  written  upon  it,  by  hands  and  heads  competent  to  do  io 
full  justice.  The  timos  have  brought  us  out.  Recent  scriptural  revealinout  by 
fulfillment  of  Prophecy  elicited  our  attention,  and  a  close  investigation  followed, 
and  these  hasty  notes  are  the  result.  They  are  very  defective  as  to  arrangement 
and  diction:  of  this,  however,  the  reader  need  not  be  told— the  fact  is  patent. 
The  want,  in  digest,  could  not  well  be  avoided,  for  we  have  jotted  down  our 
thoughts,  running  ever  a  period  of  twelve  months  or  more,  and  much  of  them 
have  been  written  in  camp  and  on  the  march,  with  very  little  privacy,  and 
sometimes  without  a  Bible  for  reference,  and  some  of  our  quotations  are  given 
from  memory,  and  may  in  some  instances  not  be  literal,  but  always  retaining  the 
sense.  And  again,  we  have  not  even  had  time  to  copy  our  notes,  and  with  the 
exception  of  a  few  sheets,  they  now  go  to  press  just  as  we  penciled  them  by  the 
way.    As  to  the  diction,  it  is  our  own,  and  just  like  us — "rough  as  a  rasp." 

If  these  notes  shall  prove  the  means,  under  God,  of  calling  attention  to,  and 
inducing  a  closer  and  more  thorough  searching  of  the  scriptures  of  truth,  by  those 
who  may  read  them,  I  shall  bo  well  paid  for  my#toil ;  not  to  say  that  I  am  not  al- 
ready a  thousand  times  repaid  for  my  investigation  by  the  satisfaction  arising 
from  the  sacred  truths  made  plain  to  my  mind.  m 

Faikfielu,  Texas.  May,  1864. 


CHAPTER    FIRST 


I  NT      3      13OTD0M. 

Bf  about  the  I  or  national  affairs  of  earth  " 

Arc  Governmt  .  i    id,  or  provided  for,  by  God  in  His  plana  1 

srnment  ol  earth?    Does  God  set  up  Nations  and   poll  down  Nations!    fs 
man,  by  nature,  I  creature,  or  '  for  common  safety  and 

sorruption  by  the  fall, forced  him  to  ag  Or,  as  the 

Kingdom  of  Babel,  the  first  kingdom  noted  in  Scripture,  was  one  growing  oul  of 

ter  or  disperse  ;  ami  as  a  stop  or  check 

,  by  the  confounding  of  their  language,  and  thus  they 

i  to  argue  that  God  designed  man 

i  hould  not  Lave  organic  governments,  but  to  live  widespread  over  the  earth, 

•er  approach  : :  governments  than  the  patriarchal  system  ! 

be  a  political  creature,  and  ne- 
.!.  does  the  lose  the  facts?  and  has  (;. 

m  earth  ?  and  if  so,  what  ones  '.'    In  short :  Is  the 

Bible  political  i  These  arc  all  questions  that  naturally  sug- 

elvea  to  in  i  :  minds.    And  in -answer  to  the  above,  we  hesi- 

o  say  the  Bible  is  not  only  political,  but  just  as  much  so  as  it  is  spirit- 

And  as  to  the  amount  or  quantum  written  in  it,  the  political   has  1; 

•:  not  that  it  is  as  important  as  the  spiritual,  but  that  something 
ad  suited  to  all  time  should  be  recorded  ;  each  record  to  be  known  in  its 
time  by  fuUfilment  and  spiritual  revealment :  while  the  spiritnal  is  never  chang- 
ing—but ever  the  same  in  all  ages.    What  was  gospel  light  and  life  for  the  early 
church  is  the  same  now,  and  will  be  forever.     Jlence  it  was  not  needful  that  a 
ide  in  every  age  to  provide  for  the  salvation  of  the  soul. 
;  and  him  erucified"  was  effectual  on  the  Day  of  Pentecost ;  and  as  "  there 
remaineth  no  more  sacrifice  for  Bin,"  it  is  still,  and  ever  will  be  so.    It  was  not 
b  upon  that  subject :  what  was  enough.  God's  wisdom 
and  mercy  d  I  gave  it  to  the  early  church.     We  have  it  :  and  God  13 

no  respecter  of  p  1  ut  every  one  that  feareth  God  and  worketh  righteous- 

pied  of  him.    In  further  answer  to  the  interrogatories  :  We  say  God 
ted  and  designed  man  to  be  a  political  creature,  and  necessitated  aggrega- 
tes  instituted  a  government  and  governments   on  earth, 
[e  claims  and  calls  his  own.    These  facts   the  Bible  fully  discloses,  as  we 

. 
We  state  the  government  and  governments  thus  :  The  Kingdom  of  Isrrcl, 
aim  as  the  first  head,  made  up  of  the  thirteen  political  Tribes.  S 

.  leaving  Levi  out,  who  had  no  national  existence  as  a  Tribe;  as 

This  kingdom  stood 

about  .  fter  secession  r  .  under  Judah  as  the  second 

he. i  1,  embracing,  as  did   the  first,  "  all  Israel."     This   kingdom— or  rather  thin 

and  fell  to  pieces  ;  ten  tribes   in  blood,  but  eleven  in  or- 

lom   of    Ephralm,  with  Samaria  as  the  capital. 

bnt  a  fraction.    The   other   two  tribes,   under 

Judah,  remained  as  they  were — but  a  fraction— and  these  two  fractions  after 

went  into  total  captivity,  Judah's  fracnon  outliving  the  other 

about  150  years,    The  kingdom  of  Isral  under  Manaqseh,  as  the  ord   and  last 

under  the, typical  dispensation,  made  up  of  thirteen  Tribes  or  States,  in 

>ft  repeated  promises,  ayncars  in  1770.    This  kingdom  stood  84  years 

and  has  fallen  to  pieces  by  seces.hM.  and  the  first  head  of  the  kingdom  of  Israel, 

under  the  new  or  realizing  in  under  Judah.  has  appeared;  and  as  sho 

is  to  be  realizkg,  he  two  remaining  heads,  Ephraim  and 

e  found  in  the  non-seoeding  States,    They  are  to  reorgan- 

making  the  fifth   and  sixth  heads,  and  then  to  be  given  to 

Judah,  when  they  will  become  "One  nation  upon  the  mountains  or  governments 

of  Israel  forever."    All  up  to  this  poiut  has  only  been  in  part  realizing.    The 


of  the  word  of  the  Lord  .to  Israel,"    All  this  strictly  of  nations:  and,  as  suon 
must  be  largely  political  or  governmental.    Jeremiah   1  ch  :  5  v.,  says   that  the 
Lord  said  unto  him,  that  before  he  was  formed  or  born,  He  (the  Lord)  had  sanc- 
tified and  ordained  him  a  prophet  unto  the  nations  ;  and  10  v.  he  is  set  over  the 
nations  and  kingdoms  "to  root  out  and  to  pull  down  and  to  destroy  and  to  throw 
down,  to  build  and  to  plant."    In   verse  lSih  he  is  made  "a  defenced  city  and  an 
iron  pillar,  and  a  brazen  wall  against  the  whole  land,  againsr  the  kings  of  Judah, 
against  the   priuces,  priests  and  people."     Thus  we  might  multiply  passages  to 
prove  that  the  Prophets  were   largely  Political   Teachers  ;  and,  as  such,  we  are 
bound  to  receive  aud  consider  their  writings,  and  to  take  heed  thereto,  as  unto 
"lights  shining  in  a  dark  place."    For  in  the  Prophets  doubtless  are  to  be  found 
the  histories  in  outline,  and  sometimes  in  minute  detail,  of  all  nations  and  king- 
doms, from  their  day  until  the  curse  is  removed,  and  the  time  comes  wherein  our 
Saviour  says,  "Behold  I  make  all  tilings  new."     If  such  be  the  fact,  it  behooves 
us  to  remember  aud  obey  this  injunction  of  our  Saviour  :  "Search  the  scriptures;" 
for  certainly  therein   is  to  be  found   our  political  as  well  as  spiritual  life.     Pot- 
while  we  hold,  with  all  Christians,    that  the  sacred  scriptures  disclose   that  full 
and  ample  provisions  are  made  by  God  for  our  spiritual  wellborn  g,  we  claim  also 
that  the  Prophets  teach,  and  fully  too,  that  the  same  beneficent  Parent  has  made 
just  the  same  provision  for  our  social  and  political  prosperity,  being  as  much  the 
author  of  our  social,   and  hence   oxr  political  nature,    as  he  is  of  our  spiritual 
nature  ;  and  we  affirm  that  the  same  agencies,  in  the  main,  are  brought  to  bear 
in  both  departments  of  his  government    to   effect  the   object    desired.     We  are 
aware  that  this  is  controverted  ground,  and  that  most,  if  not  all,  biblical  scholars 
down  to  Mr.  Baldwin,  (whom  we  except.)  claim  that  all  those  prophecies  touching 
Christ  and  his  offices  are  purely  spiritual.    We  dissent  from  this,  and  give  what 
we  believe  to  be  the  reason  why  those  scriptures  are  misunderstood  and  an  exclu- 
sively spiritual  meaning  given  them.    First,  we  are  averse  to  truth  and  receive 
it  reluctantly,  and  any  doctrine  readily  and  willingly  received  by  us  may  well 
be  suspected  of  error  ;  for  the  scriptures  pronounce  us  all  liars,  and  justly  asserts 
the  "truth  is  not  in  us."     But  perhaps  the  greater  reason  is  this  :  Christ  i 
brought  to  our  view  as  a  spiritual  deliverer,  which   is  always  a  personal  matter 
with  each  individual,  and  is  in  fact  traoscendantly  the  greater  deliverance,  and 
will  of  necessity  preoccupy  and  absorb  the  mind  to   the  exclusion  of  the  lesser. 
When  brought  to  see  and  feel  the  need  of  a  spiritual  Saviour,  being  exceedingly 
selfish,  we  care    less  for    the  national   salvation,  and   hence  give  it  little  or  no 
thought,  and  therefore  will  not  see  it.    And  again  :  spiritualities  are  intangible, 
not  visible,  not  palpable  ;  they   are  wrapped  in  mystery  ;  we  grope  in  darkness 
seeking  light,  and  hence  we  feel  the  necessity  of  a  spiritual  guide.    We  cannot, 
single  handed  and  alone,  grapple  with  the  mighty  issues  shut  up  in  eternity,  and 
are  compelled  to  have  a  spiritual  deliverer.    Not  altogether  so  in  our  social  capac- 
ity.    True,  we  are  just  as  /helpless  in  the  one  case  as  the  ether,  but  not  being  a 
personal  matter  we  never  can  bs  made  to  see  and  feel  it  so  sensibly  ;  for  we  will 
not,  cannot,  and   should  not  feel  the  same  interest  in  political  as  in  spiritual  con- 
cerns.    In  social  or  national  affairs  we  have  our  eyes  about  us,  and  things  are  not 
so  enveloped  in  darkness  and  mystery.     We  have  our  cars  to  hear,  our  hands  to 
help  ourselves;  our  companions,  friends,  relative?,  whole  communities  and  States. 
These,  we  are  disposed  to  think,  are  enough.     Our  earthly  affairs  we  can  manage 
ourselves.    Thus  it  is  we  do  not  see  aud  feel   the  need  of  a  political  Saviour,  aud 
are  not  willing  "to  have  the  man  Christ  Jesus  to  reign  over  us."     The  Jews,  at 
the  coming  of  our  Saviour,  were  quite  differently  circumstanced,  and  we  find  them 
acting  otherwise.     They  having  the  Ceremonial  Law,   with  its   outward  works, 
— pri«ste,  sacrifices  for  sin,  &c.  &c.,in  splendid  working  order  .—(as  we  may  sup- 
pose) instituted  by  God  himself,   through  their  great  law-giver,  (to   which  they 
cling  to  this  day,)  did  not  see  and    feel  the  need  of  a  spiritual  deliverer,  being 
fully  satisfied  with  what  God  had  already  giveathem,  hence  we  find  them  unpre- 
pared aud  totally  unwilling  to   receive  Christ  as  their   High  Priest,  and  vilely 

..  spiritual  deliverer,  yet  as  a  king  or  temporal  ruler  the  ma 
unlike  us,  were  not  only  willing  I  .  to  receive  h:u  tor  here  they  felt  in 


need.    Their  kingdom  boin^  overthrown  by.  and   themselves  nnder  the  rule  of 
the   '  titrated  for  a  political  redeemer;  and  on  one 

iur  Saviour  had  to  flee  the  multitude  ti  m  from  taking  him  by  force 

and  making  him  ;i  ki  i 

np  the  long  oh  ctation  of  a  political  ruler,  and  asked  him  if 

he  would  no  that  tim<  igdom  to  Israel.    Trq 

irisa  under  the  E 
wonld  remove  them  from  position,  made  it  the  ground 

that  **he  makelh  himself  a  king,"  and  hence  "speaketh  against  Pilate 

d  them  if  he  should  crucify  their  king,  and  they  repli    I   ••  I     have  no  king 
bat  Caesar,"  showing  clearly  that  they  understood  I  ' 

r  to  Puate's  question ''Art  thou  a  king 
pfied  ,  it  I  am  a  king.    To  this  end  was  1  born,  and  for  this 

came  I  into  the  world."    This,  we  think,  is  sufficient  to  settle  his  kingship.    But 
some  will  doubtless  say  his  kingdom  al  ;  and.  in  support  oi  that 

.  will  repeat  his  reply  to  Pilate,  "My  I 
he  bo  ning  evidently  to  world,  over  f 

he  above,,  he  disclaims, 
and  rally  satisfies  Pilate  that  he  is  guiltless  of  I 

We  are  assured  by  the  most  learned  biblical  scholars  that  the  word  world  hi 
the  Hebrew  has  upward  oi  twenty sig  i  f  which  mean  the  earth 

1  which  we  live,  and  th  I  en  used  as  Christ  bore  uses  it  in  refer- 

ence to  ver.no  scholar  will  deny.    Why  then  did 

rnment  and  rul  •  d  sliv- 

om  Roman   bondage?    He  does, not  (  ;  while  it  is  very  evi- 

dent that  the  mo  mt  part  of  his  mission  claii  '  viz. : 

the  spiritual  redemption  of    the  world  :  and  if  he  had  then  thou  'to  ret 

np  a  political  reign,  ir  would  not  have  been  over  the  little  Jew!  litish 

tribes,  but  over  the  whole  earth  j  fur,  if  a  king  in  any  se  is  King  of 

Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords/' 

But,  .  the  more  important  part  of  his  mission  claimed  his  first  atten- 

tion, to  fulfill  which  he  must  he  offered  up  as  a  to  re- 

deem the  world,  and  must   •  tly  defer  the   Betting  up  fully  of  the  < 

tment  of  his  government  until  some  future  time  in  his  wisdom  set.     I 
will  atill  cli  reseived  a  rines,  and  con- 

tend that  his  kii  t  of  this  world,  the  whole  ehris- 

I  there  is  m 
world;  and  thereby  prove  too  much  for  their  own  cause.     The  tan 
not  arraigned  before  Pilate  for  spiritual  heresies,  but  solely  for  political  offei 
-  shown  by  every  question  the  governor  I 
£j  The  first  ,  .  th6u 

the  king  of  tfleJews?"   to  which,  in  every  case,  he  answers affin  it  at 

*  of  Pilate,  wl  i  Is  Caesar  ' 

we  find  Id  tl  trial  he  ii 

'.  of  claiming  to  be  a  king  within  its  jurisdictioi 

.as  on  a  po  '.  before  a 

political  court,  that  had  no  jurisdiction  in  spiritual  ni 
deny  the  charge,  yet  he  is  fau  l  i  guilt! 

lenasked  of  political 
ial  ones,  upon  which  he  was  not  questioned.    Bis 
questions  were  politics  must  of  nee 

:  this  world"  was  nol  one  ofrel 

I 

■ 
or  this  can 
at  was  the  I  All 

lempl 
world,  sets  abou  1  ii  in  wisdom,  and  first  bri  ttioii 

us  the  most  important  and  oJbsi  to  eflfcet  political  salvation 


8 

without  the  first  wc  could  never  attain  unto  the  second.  We  affirm  then,  on  good 
authority,  that  Christ  is  a  "Prophet,  Priest  and  King."  First,  a  prophet  means 
in  one  of  its  nearest  and  most  legitimate  senses,  a  teacher,  as  well  as  a  foreteller  ; 
and  we  say  he  does  teach  in  the  two  several  departments  of  his  government.  All 
are  ready  to  admit,  as  Prophet,  he  has  ever  taught,  and  largely  too,  in  the  spirit- 
ual department  of  his  government.  First,  by  himself,  while  on  earth;  secondly, 
by  his  spirit;  thirdly,  by  the  written  word,  called  the  sword  of  the  spirit;  fourthly, 
by  a  called  and  accredited  living  ministry  ;  fifthly,  by  providences  in  almost 
endless  variety  j  "line  upon  line,  and  precept  upon  precept ;  here  a  little  and 
there  a  little."  In  inaugurating  and  setting  up-fully  his  priestly  department, 
it  was  necessary  that  he  should  become  himself  a  sacrifice  for  sin,  which  he  did 
on  Mount  Calvary,  crying,  in  his  last  moment,  "It  is  finished  !"  by  which  we  un- 
derstand, the  spiritual  redemption  of  the  world  ;  was  finished,  so  far  as  the  great 
High  Priest's  offering  was  concerned,  "For  thero  remaineth  no  more  sacrifice  for 
sin."  This  kingdom  being  set  up,  and  the  above  enumerated  agencies  brought 
to  bear  on  the  hearts  and  consciences  of.  the  people,  we  read  that  on  the  day  of 
Pentecost  three  thousand  rushed  into  the  kingdom  :  and  they  still  continue  to 
come,  to  the  present  day. ,,  Here  we  have  no  force  or  martial  array  brought  to 
view :  all  is  invitation,  persuasion,  wooing  and  entreating  ;  "Come,  for  all  things 
are  now  ready,"  by  which  is  meant  all  has  been  done  that  will  be  done  without 
our  agency.  We  must  now  act;  no  force  is  to  be  used;  this  kingdom  deals  with 
free  agents  ;  and,  mark  you,  with  individuals.  "Ho !  every  one  that  thirsteth, 
come,"  and  i(IHrr.  that  will  let  him  come.""  He  mu?t  reign  here  in  the  hearts 
and  affections  of  his  subjects  individually.  Now,  to  become  a  subject  of  this 
kingdom,  the  cardinal  and  absolute  requirements  are  belief  in  Christ  as  its  head; 
and,  believing,  to  heartily  repent  of  and  turn  away  from  sin,  and  receive  him  as 
aSaviour.  When  we  come  to  take  a  view  of  his  political  kingdom,  wc  find  it  very 
different.  True,  there  is  much  persuasion,  much  leading,  much  enlargement  ; 
here,  also;  much  teaching  in  his  prophetic  capacity;  much  by  his  holy  spirit's 
influence  on  the  great  political  heart;  and  much,  very  much,  in  his  written  word; 
and  by  the  human  agencies  that  he  has  called  and  qualified,  from  Adam  to  Noah, 
to  Abraham,  to  Mo3es  and  Joshua,  to  David,  and  from  him  until  the  present  time 
of  an  invitiug  and  persuasive  character — thus  evincing  the  great  and  compas- 
sionate regard  that  our  God  has  for  his  intelligent,  yet  dependent  creatures— 
showing  that  he  would  ever  lead  and  never  force,  if  we  would  but  be  led.  But 
we,  refusing  to  be  guided  and  influenced  by  the  aforesaid  appliances,  by  "Harden- 
ing our  hearts  and  stiffening  our  necks,"  are  in  danger  of  being  "suddenly  de- 
stroyed, and  that  without  remedy  ;"  for  at  this  point  a  great  dc^of  kingly  force 
is  brought  to  view,  (never  visible  in  his  priestly  department,)  ^neh  marks  his 
kingly  office  so  distinctly,  and  separates  it  so  widely  from  his  priestly  office,  that 
it  does  seem  the  most  casual  observer  need  not  doubt  as  to  the  identity  of  the  two 
departments  of  his  government  on  this  sin  cursed  earth  of  ours.  We  know  and 
admit  there  is  much  in  the  prophets,  touching  the  prosperity  of  Christ's  kingdom 
that  will  in  truth  apply  to  both  departments,  and  so  intended  by  inspiration,  for 
the  two  are  so  closely  allied,  (not  joined)  that  the  one  cannot  truthfully  be  said 
to  bo  very  prosperous  while  the  other  is  the  reverse.  One  may  be  appropriately 
styled  the  handmaid  of  the  other.  We  suppoGO  that  no  one  in  this  enlightened 
age  will  deny  that,  as  tho  Church  has  soared  or  sunk,  so  has  the  State. 

That  we  must  be  pure  individually,  before  we  can  be  collectively,  is  as  self- 
nt  a  fact  as  that  it  requires  salt  springs  to  make,   when  collected,   a  salt 
river  or  lake.    Hence,  it  becomes  every  individual,  who  would  be  a  true  patriot 
under  God,  to  ' .  tgdom  of  heaven  ;"  that  is,  3eck  to  be  spiritually 

inducted  into  tho  first  department  ot  his  government,  to  firat  become  a  Christian, 
or  follower  of  Christ,  the  great  H  •  and  the  promise  is  ''That  all  these 

things  shall  be  added  unto  you ;  ""that  is,  all  needed  temporal  blessings.  Again  : 
there  are  prophi  piritual,  that  they   can  hardly  be  said  to 

ra  altogether  political,  and  very 
man;.  I  at  will  be  in  their  time,  as  many  are 

now,  that  „u;  noi  for]  lerly,  their  time  nui  having  come. 


!  y  important  it  ).  thai  the  miud'i 
t,  in  order  to  read,  under 
the  l'ropheta  ;  and  we  Include  all  that  u  prophetic  liow  GeaMui  to 
.   lion. 


CHAPTER    THIRD. 


AS  vi  '  •  litisl}  Kingdoms  were  of 

God,  it  will  be  expected  ofus  to  show  the  facts  fullj  ■  :,<■  bo,  we 

i  "j;its   themselves    further  back  than  the 
and  pa triat  chs  to  whom  they  were  promised.     We  will  even  venture  to 
k  to  God  hi  l  and  source  of  all  true  $  ts  ;  and  il 

dim,  or"G  lecdiul 

ofthegoverum  t determine  the 

o  do  which  we  will  go  to  H  ird  of  Himself,  i 

find  it  i    I  •   in  His  intellectual  and  physical  creati 

God  is  said  to  be  one,  and  at  the  same  time  to  be  three,  thus  making/our;  and 

mber  of  perfection  seven.    How  is  this  to  be 
.  to  be  understood?    It  is  to  be  understood  thus :  (Jod  in  essens< 

'mated  and  eternal.    In  attribute*, 

viz.:  Omnipotent,  Omniscient  and  Omnipresent, 

:  •;  but  these  three  attributes  being  further  made  known,  er  in 

lown  to  tliQ  bettor  comprehension  of  nil  man,  by  repeat 

and  Holy  Spirit    This  double  form  of  threes 

God  who  ;  nth  and  last  form  of   the  Godhead. 

this  be  could  uo  .  be  God  ;  more  them  this  is  an  impossibility. 

3  of   a  God  without  the  thro:  first    named,  nor  have  we  the 

re  of  more  than  is  embraced  in  tl  \s  repeated.    They  do 

ility.    So  then  God  in  essence 

■  •  -  ■•  Dtially  three  in  quality, 

as  bef  teutn.    The 

I  .  Lent  of  the  son  and  2  tor  is  the  Son  apart 

»  spirit  separate  lrom  rather  and  Sen.    1S0  it 

.  L>  not  av  is  a   union  of  the 

form  in  the  Godhead,  which  indeed 

.  different  from  them  in  their  individual - 

%  y  each  have.    Thus :  The  Father 

I  d  a  union  o!'  them  all  is  one,  which  is 

of  the  attributes  :  Omnipo- 

I  a  union  of  them 

personal  trinity  made. 

■ .  and  not  a 

1  add   up  eight, 

God's  in:...  .    Again 

-.  fiz  :  good- 

gentleness, 

►at  they  make  up  the  God. 

'.-.  the  mediums  he 

8  of  his  Holy  Spirit  for  of  ourselves 

•  i  human  compre- 

W'e  can  sooner  com 

i  the  abstract  idea 

.  .  jss,  mercy,  love.  Ac., 

. ■;.;  they  flow  ;  we  begin 

:  of  the  goodness  must 

■d  khi.s  (juali 

id  these    two    till  further  necessitate 


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Omniscience  ;  and  once  again  those  three  qualities  joined  or  united,  necessitate 
a  God;  aad  so  od  through  the  whole  round  of  traits  of  character,  we  are  necessi- 
tated up  to  the  grand  idea  of  the  self-existent  Eternal. 

The  various   lineaments  are   not  God,  but    make  Him  known  to  us.     They 
are  mediums  through  Which  w:e  are  taught  by  the  Spirit  to  apprehend  him. 

We  have   remarked  that   God's  number  of  perfection  is   seven;  that  is,  in 
assmdimg  up  to  God   we  fill  up    the  number  seven.    Thus  :  The  Holy  Spirit  is 
one,  the  Sou  is  one,  the  Father  is  one,  Omnipresence  is  one,  Omniscience  is  one, 
Omnipotence  is  one.  aud  all  taken  together  is  one,  and  only  one,  yet  in  number, 
seven.     Now,    the  foregoing  being  considered,  might    we  not,  nay !  are  we  no  1a 
forced  to  the  conclusion   that  the  visible  creations  of  this  three  one   God,  twice^ 
"told,  should  partake  of  this  three  ono  form,  twice  told.     That  'dike  begets  like" 
is  ;t,  truism,  a  LToie  taught  fact  not  to  be  doubted,  and  hence  we  are  warranted 
in  expecting  the  child  or   creature  to  resemble  the  parent  or  creator,  in  visible 
outlines  at  least,  if  not  in  every  lineament  or  feature.     First  then,  of  the  visible 
creation — though  not  first  in  order  of  time — we  will  take  up  the  creature  man  ; 
and  we  are  at  once  informed  that  "in  the  image,'-  and  again  "in  the  likeness''  of 
God  was  he  created.     How?  we  would  ask;  in  what  sense  is  man  '-in  the  image 
of  God  J*'     Is  he  Omnipotent,  &c  ?     No!  he  is  not,  or   he  would  be  God.     Seme 
will,  doubtless,   say  reference  is   here  had   to  God's  holiness  or  purity,  as  the 
"image."     We  eay  not ;  for  if  he  was  as  pure,  holy,  or  perfect,  as  God  was  and 
is,  be  never  would  have  fallen  by  temptation,  as  he  certainly  did,  for  "God  can- 
not be  tempted."     In  what  sense,    then,   is  man  "like  God  ?"     We  answer,  he  is 
like  God  iu  that  he  conforms  to  the  Triune  God  :  first,  in  his  personal  body,  soul 
and  spirit.     The  Bible  says  he  is  so  formed  or  possessed  of  the  three,  and  we  are 
not  disposed  to  dissent  from   such  high  authority,  or  to  further  argue  the  point, 
as  this  will  settle  it  at  once.     And  secondly,  as  we  found  God    was  repeated  in 
His  trinity,  we  also  tind  man  repeated  in  his  trinity.     In  physical  man  there  are 
three  essential  fountains  oflife,  aud  only  three,  neither  of  which  could  exist  inde- 
pendent of  the  other  two,  viz  :  the  brain,  or  nervous  system  ;  the  heart,    or  cir- 
culating system  '  iiud    the  lungs,  or  breathing  system.    Here  you  will  see  again 
the  three    as  before  noted,  of  body,  soul,  and  spirit,  but  the  last  three  constitute 
but  one,  and  the  very  same  man  that  was  expressed  by  the  first  trinity  of  body, 
soul  and  spirit     The  body   is  one,  the  soul  is   one,  the  spirit  is  one,  the  brain  is 
one,  the  heart  is  one,  the  lung  is   one,  aud  all  taken  together  are  one,  and  only 
one,  yet  in  number  sevem-     These  are  all  essentials  of  life.    You  may  dismember 
and  mutilate  man  as  you  Mill,  so  as  the--  brain,  blood  aud  breathing  systems  are 
not  cut  off,  and  he  continues  to  live,  and  is,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  a  man. 
Many  are  born  imperfect  as  to  both  bodily  and  mental  structure,  yet  are  "living 
souls,"  and  hence  are  men.    If  any  doubt  the  correctness  of  our  conclusions  as 
to  the  "image"  of  God  iu  which  man  was  created,  we  need  givwut  one  scripture, 
or  "thus  saith  the  Lord"    to  settle  the   point,  as   we  think.     Genesis  1  ch:  26  v 
God  said  "Let  us   make  man  iu  our  image,   after  our  likeness."     Here  it  is  une- 
quivocally asserted    that  the  God   who  spoke   above  was   &  plural  God.     Let  us 
make  "in  our'* — "after  our."     Thus  the  plural  Godhead  iu    its  lull   plurality  of 
Omnipotence,   Omniscience,  Omnipresence,  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit  sits  in 
the  council  of  Heaven  and  determines  and  says  "let  us  make,"  and  then  did  make 
inan  in  the  "image  of  God."    Less  than  the  whole  council  could  not  have  said 
"let  us  make,"  and    then  have  made  man  in  the  image  agreed  upon.     No  person 
or  attribute  could  by  possibility  be  left  out.     All  spake  and  all  acted  ;  six  Gods 
pat  in  couucil  and  spake,  and  the  very  same  six  responsive  acted,  and  a  corres- 
ponding creature  is  the  natural  result  •  so  man  must  of  necessity  be  like  all  of 
them  in  some  sense,  and  as  he  cannot  be  by  possibility  like  them  in  attributes  of 
Omnipotence,  Omniscience  and  Omnipresence  ;  nor  yet  like  them  in  the  persons 
of  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit,  it  follows  inevitably' that  he  is  like  them  in  num- 
bers.    He  can  aud  does  have  their  number  seven,  the  identical  "image"*  intend- 
ed by  inspiration.     It  is  not  possible  that  God  could  be  "imaged"'  in  nian  iu  any 
other  mode  than  that  of  numbers.     Spiritual  existence  cannot,  be  imaged,  cannot 
be  portrayed   iu     tangible  form  ;  no  delineation*  is  possible  to  oui  powers  of 


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apprehension.    The  only  delineated    [mage  of  God  is  found  in  hia  numbers,  nnd 
his  image  of  numbers  is  that  in  which  man   was  created.    And  numb3rs  them- 
selves, in  the  ab  ia  tangible  as  a  *=  j  >  i  il  t .  bat  thej    have  their  i 
sentativee  in  visible  figures,  which  visible  |  forth 

the  invisible.     The  and  not   of 

Should  it  be  said  animal    ci 
forma  .. :  brain,    heart  and  !  i    '-.   h 

tlaim  in  support  ol  our  posi 
gin  a  greater  or  less  degree  be  ''<  at  the 

"universes    What  fart]  Bible  of  this  triune  man? 

tempted,  he  tell  so  corrupt  that  God  repeal 

th:tt  he  had  m  i  d  by   a  flood  swept  him   from  th  leaving  only 

four  males.    Noah,  who  repr  sseata  God  both  ia  person  and  power,  dh  i 

.  into  three  bloodheads,  or  a  trinity  of  bloo  I  itedbyhis 

sons  Shem,  Ham  and  J  and  being  the  heir  of  the  w 

a  trinity  of  i  r,  I  -  each  bloodhead  his  inheritanc  .  •■  have 

atrini  Jons  yet  only   one  in  their  father  representing  a. trinity  of  blood, 

who  ia  Noah  wa  blood,  and  also  a  trinity  of  territory,  making  but  one 

earth.    This  is  a  trinity  of  trinities.    Following  one   of  the 

1  by  Shem.  the  .  to  whom  national  rul 

prom  ;  to  sway  the  national  sceptre — we  soon  Bad  in  i<  a  trinity 

ion  il  fathers  in  Abraham.  Isaac  and  Jacob  ;  and  in  Ja  (the  trinity 

of  national  fath  sra  is  repeated  and  represented  by  Ephraim,  Jadafa  and  liauassen. 
Thus,  as  iii  repeating  of  the  triune  God,  we  found  re  do  here  of  tho 

nl  fathers,  viz.  :  Manaea  h  waa  one,  Judah  was  one,  Ephraim  was  one.  Ja- 
cob was  one,  Isaac  was  one,  Abraham  was  one,  and  ail  taken  together  is  but  the 
one  p  to  Shem.  who  is  the  seventh,  beiog  the  first  in  promise 

and  is  to  be  the  last  in  realization.  We  always  trace  upward  to  the  head:  re- 
turn to  the']  ing.  The  trinity  oil-1  d;  it 
is  not  necessary  to  d  •  ress  fulluess  or  completion  T  |  was 
fully  ■                  by  the  first  trinity  of  the  attributes  ;  uo  more  \,  d  in 

coud  Trinity  than   was  found   in  the   first.    The  result   in  both 
V.;t  as  we  Bay  it  was  iu  mercy  repeated,  for   the  better  comprehension  of  man, 
fo  any  trinity  within  itself  is  complete,   and  the  result  in  all  a  fourth  ia 

number,  and  not  either  one  of  the  trinity  numbers.     J  >,  3am  was 

ad  all  takeu  together  con-  iah  as  one 

blood.  whi(  yet  three  in  his   sons.     The  Bible  is 

....  on  the  p  ie  organic  governments  on 

■   '■  \M     .  rtriarcbal  system  seems  to  have  been  the  nearest 

ch  to  it.  ^But  lines   upon  a  reorganization  in 

ral,  in  which  al  or  national  comes  ii  rjns  at 

tbeb<  i  was  to  sway  the  nati  <vn- 

>  be  succeeded  by  his  brother  Japheth,  who  will 
it  until  "he  <  The  patriarchal  system  pi  r  the  flood 

time,   but  even  it  makes  an  advance  ad  early  as  the  days  of 
at  of  Shem,  with  whom  God  makesacovenanl 
-.to  his  son  it  i.l 

ud  heir,  Jacob,  saying  a  "nation  and  a  company 
m.    The  three  national  fathers  above,  not  realizing 
this  repeated  promise  in  tii  J       b,  the  last  one  of  tlie  three,  tran 

Ephraim,  Judnb  and  Manasseh.    II 
markablel    Here  \  trinity  of  pron  is  but  one. 

.  all  three — a  nationality  to  be  made  up  Of  nationali- 
sm, then  ;n  to  Jacob.    The  promise 
ain  nationality,  and  to  Isaac  an  I  two 
other  natipnalitj                                   f  the  same  one.     As  the  first,  or  rather,,  did 
not  rea                                 <                                                                                ;  \ir% 
failing  to  realize  it,  il  is  transferred  to  Jacob,  who  in  turn  transfi  ra  it  to  his  sons 
iuity,  each  of  which  was  to  I                       irns  and  pa 


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wo  have  two  trinities  ol  promises,  or  rather  the  same  promise  made  to  Iavo  trini 
ties,  again  making  the  number  six.    Neither  one  of  the  niimbors  running  up  to 

,-,i.\  was  the  very  thing  promised,  but  a  fall  realization  is  to  be  found  in  a  union  of 
both  the  trinities,  making  the  seventh  number  and  last  form,  Or  head  of,  the  aa 
tionality  promised.  The  three  first  fathers  never  did  receive  the  semblance  of  a 
kingdom,  except  Jacob  may  be  said  to  have  done  so  in  his  twelve  sons  and  their 
families,  who  shadowed  forth  visibly  the  coming  nation,  made  up  of  a  ''company 
ol  nations/'  They  were  one  family,  made  up  of  a  number  of  families.  This 
would  indicate  that  the  three  (irst  heads  of  tiie  promised  nation  would  be  typicaU 
or  non-realizing,  and  that  the  third  head,  or  last  of  the  three,  whom  Jacob  rep™ 
resents,  waa  to  be  more  realizing  than  the  two  preceding  ones.  We  will  have 
occasion  to  notice  this  point  again,  when  we  come  to  speak  of  realization  else- 
where. We  will  now  turn  to  the  promises  referred  to,  and  trace  up  the  nation- 
ality, under  its  several  heads,  of  the  first  or  non -realizing  trinity  ;  remarking, 
however,  upon  trinities  that  nothing  exists  without  Us  trinity,  not  even  inanimate 
substances.  'Tis  impossible  to  conceive  of  anything  or  give  expression  of  it, 
without  making  use  of  a  trinity  in  some  mode.  For  instance,  take  a  book,  block 
of  wood,  stone,  or  even  the  most  attenuated  web  of  the  spider,  or  .sheet  of  paper, 
or  anything,  no  matter  how  irregular  in  form,  and  it  must  and  does  have  length, 
breadth  and  thickness.  Not  because  the  books  say  so,  but  the  books  say  so,  be- 
cause they  are  positively  inherent  qualities  of  all  substances.  You  may  say  tho 
body  is  round  or  square,  and  it  will  give  no  idea  of  its  size  or  dimensions  ;  for 
though  it  may  be  round  or  square,  or  of  any  other  form,  it  must  of  necessity  have 
length,  breadth  and  thickness  expressed  before  you  can  conceive  of  or  estimate  it. 


CHAPTER    FOURTH. 

THE  KINGDOM  OF   ISUJEL  UNDER  EPHRAIM,  OR  ITS  FIRST  HEAD. 

• 

IN  Genesis  12  ch:  2  v.  God  says  to  Abraham  "I  will  tttake  of  thee  a  great 
nation. "     (Jen.  17  ch:  I  v.  '-Thou  shaft  be  a  father  of  many  nations.'7     Gen. 
L 8  ch:  i$r  V.  ■" Abraham  shall  surely  become  a  great  am  '■      oatibm"    Here, 

at  the  very  outset,  we  have  a  nation  in  its  oneness  and  i      Hfdlty  or  plural 

form,  of  which  we  shall  have  occasion  to  speak  more  largely  hereafter  ;  so  please 
bear  in  mind  this  :  "E  pluribus  unuin."  Again,  Gen.  22  ch:  17  v.  it  was  promised 
to  Abraham  that  his  seed  ''should  be  as  the  stars  of  heaven  And  as  the  sand  on 
the  sea  shore,  and  that  they  should  possess  the  gates  of  theiWhemies."  Here  in 
aggressiveness,  and  must  be  national,  not  individuals.  'And  in  thy  seed  shall 
all  nations  of  the  earth  be  blessed."  These  promises  are  renewed  Gan  1G  ch:  3 
and  1  v.  to  Isaac,  hi  Gen.  25  ch:  23  v.  it  is  said  to  Rebecca  '"two  nations  are  in 
thy  womb/'  which  were  Jacob  and  Esau,  her  then  unborn  son;;,  typifying  or  rep- 
resenting two  groat  nationalities  that  were  to  arise  from  them,  which  promise 
had  its  fulfillment  in  the  kingdoms  of  Israel  and  Edom.  This,  we  suppose,  no 
oue  will  question.  Isaac  blessing  Jacob  says,  (-fen.  27  ch:  2d  v.,  ''Let  people. 
serve  thee,  and  nations  bow  down  to  thee,"  as  much  as  to  say  people  shall  servo 
thee,  and  nations  shall  bow  down  to  thee,  for  it  was  spoken  prophetically,  ami 
therefore  must,  find  fulfillment,  or  the  truth  of  scripture  must  fail.  And  as  na- 
tions are  made  to  bow  down,  it  must  be  to  a  nation  or  nations  that  they  bow,  for 
to  Jacob  as  an  individual  they  did  not  bow  down  ;  he  was  only  the  representa- 
tive of  the  "nation  or  nations"  to  whom  obedience  is  commanded.  Again  it  is 
said  to  Jacob,  "A  nation  and  a  company  of  uations  shall  be  of  thee,  and  king;! 
shall  come  out  of  thy  loins'-  the  same  promise  precisely  that  was  made  to  his 
grandfather  Abraham  and  renewed  to  Isaac,  as  quoted  above:  showing  the  one 
of  many  and  the  many  in  om  ,  so  often  seen  emblazoned  on  oar  old  national  stand- 
ard, coin,  Ac.  Once  more  of  Ephraini  it  is  said,  Gen.  48  ch:  19  v.,  *'His  seed 
eh  all  become  a  multitude  of  nations."    And  Bal ise  of 


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Jacob  says  In  N  i  a  2f  ch:  God  hina  forth  out  ol  Egypt  ,  he  bath 

:  Lb  of  on  nnicoi  n  eat  np  the  nations  bi  i  en< 

and  Bhall  '•  bones,  and  pierce  them  through  with  i  i    avoirs."    All  this 

.  and  then  learlj  political,  and  proves  to  a 

demo  :   i  1   God  doe*  concern   birai  elf  in  the 

political  affairs  •  well  as  the  spiritual,  *.vn«l  that  he  "pulleth  down  one 

nation  and  settetfa  np  another  as  Beemeth  good  to  him."     h  farther  proves  that 

he  not  only  takes  cognizance  of  l ho  national  or  political  affairs  ol  earth,  but  that 

show,)  had  "a  nation  and  a  company  of  nations1' 

thai,  he  in  a  C  ill   I  M    own.  from  Abraham,  in  whom  the  J  Were  in 

embryo,  until  too  consummation  of  all  things  earthly.    We  might  go  on  multiply 

i  s  as  above,  but  our  limits  forbid,  ami  the  readers  patience  might  tiro  ; 

ob  the  foregoing  sufficient,  for.  as  said  to  one  of  obi,  "They  have 

ami  the  prophets:  if  they  will  not  bear  them,  they  would  not  believe  though 

one  should  arise  from 

We  will   now  set  out  ill  search  of  the  "nation  and  company  of  nations'1 

prorai.-ed;  and  in  ibis  we  shall  be  bpionttr,  for  .so  far  as  we  know  no  one  has-  uu 

ki  d  to  tre, el  the  path  we  now  propose  to  travel.    The  nation  as  one  we  need 

discuss,  as  all  will  readily  admit  that  the  descendants  of  Abraham  (called 

lLebp  from  the  bondage  of  Egypt  by  the  Lord,  through  his  ser 

is  and  Aaron,  and  finally  by  Joshua  brought  to.  ami  put  in  possession 

of,  the  land  of  Canaan  in  an   organized,  national    form,  is  the   identical  nation 

abovotiamcd  as  ore'.    Now,  that  same  nation  in  its  plural  beads  of  three,  we  seel 

for,  and  sb  :.  in  vain.    We  shall  notice  what  issaidjia  the  promises  con 

cerni  »r  whatever  is  promised  must,  be  realized  or  fulfilled  ;  and  what 

a,  is  equivalent  to  a  promise.    The  "  company  of  nations;  " 

above  in  one  of  its  forms,  for  it  has  seven,  begins  to  take  form  and  appear  I  i  i    l     i:t 

ch.  of  Gen.,  where  Jacob  blesses  his  sons,  takes  Ephraim  and  Man:'  teh 
the  two  sons  of  Joseph,  from  their  father  and  adopts  thorn  as  hi-  own  sons,  say 
ing  "as  Reuben  and  Simeon,  they  shall  be  mine."  He  then  proceeds  to  pronounce 
a  national  I  or  promise,  npon  these  two  sons,  placing  bis  right  hand  upon 

the  head  of  Ephraim,  and  b  ;  of  Manassch,  savin.--,  in  the  16th 

ned  me    from  all  evil,  bless  the  lad-;  and  let  my 

>"  (Israel,  which  e  au\)  "be  named  on  them,  and   the  name  of 

Abraham  a  mgrow  into  a,  multitude  in  the  midst 

of  the  earth;"  and  in  the  19  both  shonld  become  a  people,  and 

:'  hut  that  Ephraim  should  be  greater  than  his 
ie    a  multitude  Of    nation-;.''      In    the   20Lll 

verse  the  IsralituA  n  .  God  made  thee  as  Ephraim  and 

•h:  amrnc  fore  Man  asseh."     Ami  herein  consisted  bis 

loss,  ascon  I   nasseh.     He  was  simply   to  have 

:h  to  be  precisely  the  same  thing 
'•a,  gr  "  but   Eph  h.     Bfanasseh    was  as  certain  to 

follow  i  m' a  blessing   conferred  national 

ih's,  for   their  blessing  was 
ie  will  doubtless  ques- 
tion whether  th  '  d  with   it  national  headship,  we  will  give  some 

>li  h  the  fact  beyond  a  doubt,    1st  Chronicles, 

5  ch:  1  v.  says  that  £  as  taken  from  him  and  "was  given  unto 

KB  of^jToseph  thi  T,  why  is  Joseph  here  called,  as  also  in 

other  scriptures,  "the  son  of  fsra  1.  '  the  prevailei  with  God  and  man.  if  it  did  not 

trenT  with  the  exception  of  Judah,  who  in 
the  2nd  vej  >ov<  bi    brethren,  and  of  him  came  the 

chief  ruler;  but  the  bi  The  fact  is,  Joseph  being  the  son 

hyp,.  raiting  father  Israel,  he  became 

the  head  and  inherited  the  right  to  ru  11.     This  being  made  still  strong- 

er, if  possible,  by  saying  his  was  the  birthright,   which  always  gave  and  carried 
with  it  the  dominion  A  moo  ef  the  household  and  a  double  inheritance, 

except  u  in  the  case  of  Beubcn  ami  Esau,  it  was  ^pecilically  disposed  of.    This 


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would  seem  to  be  sufficient,  but  as  we  travel  an  untrodden  road,  (to  us  at  least.) 
we  will  add  further  marks  from  the  same  unquestioned  authority  to  fortify  the 
position  wo  have  taken,  and  will  cite  Jacob's  blessing  of  Joseph,  (which  always 
descends  by  heirship  to  the  sons.)  Gen.  49  ch:  22  v.,  Joseph  is  called  "a  fruitful 
bough  by  a  well;  whose  branches  run  over  a  wall."  What  wall  is  here  spoken 
of  iii  the  past  tense,  yet  evidently  in  the  future,  but  his  national  wall  or  boundary 
that  he  was  to  break  over?  showing  at  once  the  aggressive  character  of  the  na- 
tion he  represented.  25th  verse  he  was  to  be  sustained  nationally  by  the  God  of 
heaven,  "with  the  blessings  of  heaven  above,  Jdessings  of  the  deep,  blessings  of 
the  breast,  and  of  the  womb.'-  26th  v.,  "The  blessings  of  thy  father  have  pro- 
vailed  above  the  blessings  of  my  progenitors  unto  the  utmost  bound  of  the  ever- 
lasting hills :  they"  (the  foregoing  blessing,)  "shall  be  on  the  head  of  Joseph, 
and  on  the  crown*  of  the  head  of  him  that  was  separate  from  his  brethren."  Once 
more  :  Dent.  33  ch:  13  v.,  "Blessed  of  the  Lord  his  land,  for  the  precious  things 
of  heaven,  for  the  dew,  and  for  the  deep  that  coucheth  beneath,  and  for  the  pre- 
cious fruits  brought  forth  by  the  sun,  and  for  the  precious  things  put  forth  by  the 
moon,  and  for  the  chief  things  of  the  ancient  mountains,  and  for  the  precious 
things  of  the  lasting  hills,  and  for  the  precious  things  of  the  earth  and  fulness 
thereof,  and  for  the  good  will  of  him  that  dwelt  in  the  bush  :  let  the  blessing" 
(above)  "come  upon  the  head  of  Joseph,  and  upon  the  top  of  the  head  of  him  that 
was  separated  from  hfs  brethren.  His  glory  the  firstling  of  his  bullock, 
and  his  horns  the  horns  of  unicorns :  with  thein"  (the  horns,)  "he  shall 
push  the  people  together  to  the  cuds  of  the  earth  :  and  they"  (the  horns,)  "  are 
the  ten  thousand  of  Ephraim,  and  they  are  the  thousands  of  Manasseh."  This  is 
surely  sufficient,  for  the  present  at  least,  and  is  national  in  its  character  through- 
out; and  in  no  future  sense  does  it  apply  to  tha  person  Joseph,  nor  yet  to  his  two 
sons,  who  heir  all  conferred  on  the  father.  Joseph's  future  was  at  no  time  more 
glorious  or  exalted  than  when  the  above  was  spoken  of  him,  and  hence  cannot 
apply  to  him  personally,  but  strictly  of  his  future  headship  and  rule  over  the 
Jsnolitish  nation  in  its  oneness,  by  one  of  his  sous  at  a  time  in  his  tribal  capacity; 
first,  Ephraim,  as  it  is  said  "he  set  Ephraim  before  Manasseh."  It  follows,  then, 
if  Ephraim  leads,  Menasseh  must  come  after  him  in  the  same  capacity  of  ruler; 
and  it  further  follows  that  if  they  reign  over  the  same  nation,  they  must  do  so  at 
different  periods  of  time,  it  being  impossible  for  both  to  reign  at  once  over  a 
united  people,  or  over  this  one  nation  premised  to  each  of  the  three  fathers,  as 
one.  and  this  one  nation  under  each  head,  was  to  be  made  up  of  "a  company  of 
nations."     So  they  must  rule  at  different  times. 

Having  said  what  we  deem  sufficient  as  to  the  promises  of  nationality  to  Abra- 
ham, who  received  it  not,  and  as  his  successors  Isaac,  Jacob,  Ju^ih,  Ephraim  and 
Manasseh  did  not  live  to  see  the  end  of  the  Egyptian  bondage,  we  will  now  go 
beyond  in  the  history  of  that  interesting  people,  and  hud  a  fulfillment  of  the 
promises;  in  which  we  shall  certainly  be.  anticipated  by  all  Bible  readers,  as  to 
the  first  single  form  of  the  nation.  We  will  start  at  the  point  of  time  that  the 
Hebrews  (about  3,000,000  in  number,  600,000  of  whom  were  able  to  draw  the 
.-word,  under  the  leadership  of  Moses,)  left  the  land  of  bondage  for  the  land  of 
promise,  and  will  follow  them  rapidly  through  their  forty  years  wandering  in  the 
wilderness,  into  the  land  of  promise,  with  Joshua,  an  Ephraimite,  at  their  head 
as  C.i plain  General  and  leader  of  their  hosts'  in  battle.  We  find  that  under  this 
Ephraiinilish  leader  this  wandering,  migratory  Hebrew  people  rapidly  subdued, 
drov'e  out  and  put  to  the  sword  the  nations  that  were  in  possession  of  the  land, 
and  organized  in  their  stead,  the  first  theocratic,  states-rights,  confederate,  republican 
government  on  earth,  with  Joshua  as  the  first  President,  Judge,  or  Chief  Execu- 
tive. Thus  began  to  be  fulfilled  the  oft-repeated  promises  to  the  patriarchal  fath- 
ers of  nationality;  and  this  organic  structure,  under  the  Ephraimitish  head  in  its 
oneness,  and  under  the  thirteen  tribal  heads  in  its  severalty  br  plural  form  of  sover- 
eign States,  remained  intact  for  about  live  centuries;  but  finally  under  Samuel, 
the  last  Judg<^  or  President,  the  people,  by  the  permission  of  God,  added  to  their 
republic  royalty,  with  Saul,  a  Benjaminite,  chosen  by  God,  and  anointed  by  Sam- 
uel, as  their  first  king.    But  this  addition  did  not  affect  the  theocratic,  confeder- 


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ivernraeut  ;  (1  o  i  •>!  head  th  ! 

Thia  nationality  under  all  of  it-  beads  is  always 
called  in  scripture  **Isi  !      capital  under    t!ie  first  head  was  Shiloh,  in  tbe 

tribe  of  Epbraiin,  and  the  peoplo  were  also  called  R<  d  descended  In  a 

line   from  Shem,  th    eld  at  ol  Noah's  three  sons;  an  rernraent.  as 

before  stated,  was  on<  one,  or  perhaps  il  was 

a  singular  made  up  of  plurals,  and  answers  to  the  promise  "a  nation  and  a 

;..  be  iViSi-M    to  Ephraim;  and  so  it  was,  as  above 
noted.     Here,   for  the   present,  we  will  drop  I  m  or  government  of 

Ephraim,  and  go  in  search  of  "Judah'*  Kingdom"  for  national  headship  wa 
promised  him,  as  well  aa  Ephraim  and  Manasseii  ;  and  aa  Mi  I  later 

in  history  and  prophetic  fulfillment  than  Judah,  we  will  take  lip  J  idah  first  and 
Manasseh  lasl  ol  the  thtee,  for  be  it  known,  once  fur  all.  that  we  claim  thai  thi 
Bible  th  re  wae  to  ariae  three  typical,  E  pluribns  unum,  governments 

in  nationalities;  one  under  Ephraim,  one  nnder  Judah,  and  one  under  Manasseh, 
promised  first  to  Abraham,  loaae,  and  Jacob. 


CHAPTER    FIFTH 


tit;:  KINGDOM  OF  IS!:  DAVID  OR  JUDAH. 

Ionr  plan,  we  now  take  np  the  nationality  of  Judah,  a-  we 
find  if  in  scripture  promises,  commonly  c  ill  •  !  ■  s.    .'  c    •.   in  the  lyili 

Hi:  1  v.  of  Gen.,  "called  unto  his  son  1  said,  G  together, 

I  nriy  tell  you  that  which  shall  befall  you  in  the  last  days."     or  course  he 
did  d  :,.ii  waa  i-i  ii  fall  his  twelv  of  which  he 

.  them  "in  th  •  least, 

q!  time,  and  was  consequently  spoken  of  them  in  their  de- 

ational  sense.     In   the  8th  verse  Jacob  says:  ••.Judah.  thou 

art  !:  shall  praise:  thy  hand  shall  he  in  the  neck  of  thine 

thy  father's  children  shall  bow  Judah  is  a  lion's 

son,   thou  art  gone  up  :  lie  stooped  down,  lie  co 

old  lion  ;  who  shall   rouBe  him  up*      I  re  shall  not 

.  c.    This  is  all  national,  and  in  the  far  future;  for  his  literal  brethren 

'.'id    how  to  him.  nor  have  we    any  evidence  that  he   ever   had  hi    hind  in 

his  enemii  any  preeminence  whafo  vev  was  his :  and  in  (act 

eed  down,  together  with  his  other  br  :-  their  brother  when 

down  into  Egypt.     It  is  all  prophetic  of  the  future  ol'  Jacob's  sons 

They  were  all  (Levi  I    nationality,  but  to  Judah 

and  Joseph  alone  was  promised   national  headship   or    dominion  over  the  other 

tribes  orstati   .     Isl  Cbron.,  .".  ch:  -  v.  "For  Judah  prevailed  above  his  brethren, 

and  of  him  came  the  chief  ruler."    This,  with  many  other  ]  is  spoken  in 

tin-  pa  I  )  Psalm  60th  :  7  \\   ia  said'-Gilead  is 

mine.  -his  mi:  .  of  mine,  head;  Judah 

i.-  my  lawgivi  v."  and  if  a    lawgiver,  he  mil  nally,  for  at  this 

lah  had  be  aerations.    Inth  lm,  67th  verse : 

"Moreover  he"  (the  Lord)  "refused  the  tabernacle  of  Joseph,  and  chose  not  the 

i  f  Ephraim  :  hut  chose  the  tribe  of  Judah,  the  mount  Zion  which  he  Loved. 

And  he  built  his  sanctuary  like  high  p  •  the  earth  which  he  bath  estab- 

lisbtd  forever."    Thi  proves  that  Ephraim' s  reign  has  an  end,  but  Ju- 

dab's,  under  David,  shall  !»<>  end]  earth  ;  and   thia  proves  that  Judah 

aud  inouut  Ziou   are  ouo  and  the  ^aiuo  "Judah.  the  niouut  Zion  which  he  loved." 


in  the  89th  Psalm,  3  v.,  issaid,  "I  have  made  a  eovena  it  witl       v  c  iiosen   >;  h%\  ■ 
sworn  unto  David  my  servant,  thj  seed  will  i  esl  iblilh 

throne  to  all  generations."    Now,  all  th  of  David  applies  to  Judah,  for 

he  was  Judah's  head;  and  applies  also  to  mount  Zion,  for  ludah"   the 

mount  Zion  which  iio  loved."  Again,  in  the  19th  verse,  same  Psalm  of  David, 
it  is  said,  "I  have  laid  help  upon  one  that  is  mighty;  I  have  exalted  one  chosen 
out  of  the  people.    1  have  found  David   my  servant  ;  with   my  holy   oil  have  I 

anointed  him.';    ' "I  will  beat  down  his  foes  before  his  face,  and  plague 

them  that  hate  him,  and  in  my  name  shall  his  horn  bo  exalted.  I  will  set  his 
baud  also  in  the  sea,  aud  his  right  hand  in  the  rivers.  Tie  shall  cry  unto  mo" 
(saying)  "Thou  art  my  father,  my  God,  and  the  rock  of  my  salvation.  Also  I 
will  make  him  my  firstborn,  higher  than  the  kings  of  the  earth.  My  mercy  Will 
1  keep  for  him  for  evermore,  aud  my  covenant  'shall  stand  fast  with  him.  His 
seed  also  will  I  make  to  endure  for  ever,  and  his  throne  as  tiro  days  of  heaven. 
My  covenant  will  1   not  break,  nor  alter  the  thin  i  at  of  my  lips.  - 

Once  have  I  sworn  by  my  holiness  that  i  will  not  lie  unto  Davd.  His  seed  shall 
endure  forever,  and  his  throne  as  the  sun  before  mo."  We  have  here  a  lengthy 
quotation  from  the  Psalms,  penned  or  dug  the    reign  oi  David  or  his 

successors,  and  must  have  a  future  application,  yet  every  "word  of  it  is  in  refei 
ence  to  the  Isnelitish,  or  in  other  words,  David's  kingdom,  and  is  strictly  politi- 
cal. Aud  as  the  then  existing  kingdom  of  David  passed  away  eighteen  hundred 
years  ago,  the  above  promises  of  perpetuity  cannot  be  applied  to  it,  but  to  its 
antitype,  which  was to  arise  in  the  far  distant  future,  called  often  -''latter  day  or 
days."  Dut  we  are  digressing  somewhat  from  our  present  purpose,  which  is  to 
show  that  nationality  was  promised  to  Judah,  as  well  as  to  Ephraim  and  M.i 
sen  ;  still,  we  may  claim  the  last  quotations  as  collateral  supports  to  the  former, 
as  they  gojto  prove   the  fact  that  there  did  1 1  as  "Judah"  or 

David's;  and  hence  the  former  quotations,  and  our  conclusions,  arc  proven  by 
the  latter.    We  presume  it  will  not  be  questioned  that  there  wi  such  a 

kingdom  as  Judah's,  including  all  Israel,  as  well  as  EphrainVs  did,  they 

were  separate  may,  doubtless  will,  be  is  we  have  shown,  or  called 

attention  to,  the  rise  of  the  kingdom  of  Ephraim,  and  traced  it  in  haste    to  its 
change  into  a  royalty  under  Saul,  its  first  king,  we  will  now  call 
vise  of  the  kingdom  of  Judah  over  Israel,  noting  carefully  its  origin.*  In '1 
ch  :  1  v.  of  1st  Samuel  God  says  to    Sa  be  prophet  :  '*I  ha 

from  reigning  over  Israel :  fill  thine  horn  with  oil,  and  go,  I  will  s'ond  thee  to 
Jesse  the  JSeth-lehemite  :  lor  I  have  provid  >ng  his  sons.  .  . 

Samuel  took  the  horn  of  oil,  and  anointed  him  (I  st.of  hisbr<  ' 

and  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  came  upon  David  fr<    . 

the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  departed  from  Saul."    Here,  in  plain  terms,  Saul,  thi 
king  of  Israel,  is  rejected  by  God  who  chose  him  tribe. 

elected,  chosen,   and  anointed  in  his  stead  by  the  same 
crowned  and  formally  inducted  into  his  ofii.ee.    Saul, 
to  exercise  the  functions  of  king  for  a  considerable  period  of  time.    In 
time,  David  grows  popular  with  the  people.     Bai  >usy  of  the  ei 

appears  :  he  bitterly  persecutes,  and  uses  every  possible  means  t<  slain, 

David  flees  from  stronghold  to  stronghold  with  his  faithful  and  increasing 
band,  hard  pressed  by  his  inveterate  enemy.    Gaul,   beco: 
Philistines,  commandeth  the  woman  of  Endor  to  cause  Samuel,  who  is  now 
to  arise  for  his  council.    Samuel  comes,  2S  ch:  1G  v.,  and  i  refore  then 

dost  thou  ask  of  me,  seeing  the  Lord  is  departed  ,  and  is  become  thine 

enemy?  ....  for  the  Lord  hath  rent  the  kingdom  out  of  thine  hand,  and  given 
it  to  thy  neighbor,  even  to  David."  Very  soon  after  this  is  spoken,  Saul  falls  in 
battle,  on  Mount  Gilboa.  David  immediately  enquires  of  the  Lord  whether  he 
should  go  up  into  any  of  tho  cities  of  Judah;  and  the  Lord  answers  "Go  up  to 
Hebron."  .  .  .  .  So  David  went  up  thither.  ....  And  the  men  of  Judah  came, 
and  there  they  anointed  David  king  over  the  house  of  Judah."  Abner, ! 
General-in-chief,  about  this  time  took  Saul's  son,  "and  made  him  kii 
Israel,"  "and  he  reigned  two  years;15  while  Dayid  reigned 


■       .'. 
"Then  came  all  r»l"    (in  their  tribal    •  'to  David 

.Uebrr ■■  ;>avid  king  of  Israsl."     "David  war  tl 

ay  year.-'..    la  B 

id  orerJuuah:-  is  months  :  aad  in  Jerusalem  ! 

thirty  and  three  yea™  over  all  Ierasl  and  Judab."    Thus  is  given 
thf  origin  and  rise  of  in  of  David,  cor:  • -.ional  headship 

-  all  Isrrcl,  for  over  Israel  was  ho  i:  by  the  L 

anointed  king  over  Judah ;  and   her 
incipiency  hisreign  ov  I  years  and  six  v: 

therca  icceeded  him,  an  torty  years  ov 

-  but  on  th  Solomon's  son  Relioboam  ko  the 

ten  ol  of  Israel  broke  od",   under  the  leadership  of  Je~ 

(as  God  had  befoi  in,)  but  one  tribe  vr. 

that  tribe  was  l  Judah'a  headship,  over  all   Isi 

* y-three  years  :  and  the  kingdom  of  Israel,  under  I  b ip  of  Jerol 

the  Ephraimite,  war*   reestablished,  with  Samaria  as  the  capital,  the  ' 
having  been  ah  ShUoh.     From  this  time  forward  we  find  the  ki . 

jotemporary  ;  at  time 
and  again  at  peace  ;  now  prospering  under  a  good   king,  or  toppling  to 

ra  partial  captivities,  until  finally  the 

t  'Israel,  under  JSphiaJ  I  to  total  national  captivity,  under  Si 

*  have  not,  nor  over  will  return,  under  Hebrew  rulers.'    Yet  tl 

red  promise  is  that  Isms!  shall  return.  (See  16  ch.  of  Bzekiel.)  Fc 
we  shall  seek  at  the  proper  time  and  place.  We  are  not  yet  done  with  D: 
kingdom  in  its  ...  (for  it  was  typical.)    We  follow  it  ^ 

fortunes,  for  about  a  century  and  a  half,  and  find  it,  at  the  c 
the  promised  Messip.h,  a  Roman  province,   a  subjugated  peop!;.  tog  no 

national  head,  but  retaining  it]  tribal  distinction;  for  this  had  been  promised  by 
J    •        .  r  of  Judab.    Ec  was  to  remain  intact  as  a  tribe '-'until  - 

G        ;"  soon  after  whioh  event  Judah,  liko  Ephraim,  passes  into  endle?s car. 
I  as  the  Hebrew  headship  13  concerned.    Numerous  7  like  as  onto 

Ephraim,  are  dispersed  through  the  Bible  of  a  -latter  day"  return  t 
showing,  as  in  the  ca3e  of  Ephraim,  that  his  reign  ha  I 

ing,  only  in  part.    For  this  we  shall  alio  seek  at  the  proper  time  and  place.     Oui* 
ill  be  to  search  for  the  third  typical  head  of  the  kingdom  of  Intel. 
which  is  to  be  fulfilled  to  Manasseh  ;  for  the  promises  to  him  are  as  cl< 
are  to  his  two  predec-  •    I   if  the  two  foregoing   were  types,  his  m 

necessity,  be  so  too,  for  they  were  brethren  national  •  16th  oh.  of 

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CHAPTER    SIXTH. 

THll  KINGDOM  OF  MANASSEH,   OR 

Wless  to  eav  wore,  soripturally  or  otherwise,  fo 
^ed  to  Mauaseeh  ;  for  if  not  pr 
Lim,  n  it  to  the  two  foregoing  heads.    Now  n 

that  the  kin  ,  Ic  i  exist,  but  claim  tha  I 

and  {fa  id  that  nothing  is  said  of  the  kingdom 

expec  10   more  pi 

identi  ■  nee.    This  wesh 

ipes  Ephraim,  Judak  and  Manar 
7  must  ha"  •  i  a  common  family  I 

bat  re 

• 


IS 

rrato,  republican  royalty,  or  of  whatever  form  or  complexion — so  ware  the  others, 
From  4b is  conclusion  there  is  no  escape.  We  do  not  pay  that  in  all-  their  linea- 
ments and  features  brothers  and  sisters  shall  be  alike,  but  the  general  resem- 
blance, or  family  marks;  should  be  found.  We  hesitate  not,  to  assert,  as  before, 
that  the  first  organic  form  of  the  Hebrew  nation  was  a  theocratic,  confederate,  states 
right  Republic,  under  Epbraira,  to  which  royalty,  in  the  end,  was  added;  and  under 
its  second  organic  form  royalty  remained,  leaving  it  still,  however,  a  republic  :for 
the  people  resisted  successfully  the  decree  of  death  by  Saul,  the  first  kiug, 
— claiming  the  right  to  reverse  his  judgment — and  did  so.  Now,  as  Ephraim  jind 
Manasseh  were  not,  in  the  strict  sense  of  the  word,  "brothers"  of  Jndah— for  they 
were,  in  fact,  his  nephews — we  may  reasonably  conclude  there  was  a  more  strik- 
ing resemblance  existing  between  them  than  between  them  and  him;  and  iu  like 
manner  between  their  two  governments  more  corresponding  marks  than  between 
their  governments  and  his.  Such  we  find  to  be  the  case.  Let  us  see.  The  first 
Israel  was  made  up  of  twelve  sovereign,  independent  states,  one  of  whom  (Ma- 
nasseh) was  divided  in  settlement — thus  making  thirteen — leading  out  Levi,  who 
bad  no  landed  estate,  no  nationality.  In  short,  his  was  the  priesthood.  Mr. 
Baldwin  makes  up  the  thirteen  by  including  him.  This  was  improper,  as  it  is 
said  he  shall  have  no  inheritance  but  the  priesthood,  hence  no  nationality.  We 
are  seeking  after  nations,  and  shall  pass  him  by. 

Mr.  Baldwin,  in  his  incomparable  work,  "  Armageddon,'?  has  done  for  us 
what  we  never  could  have  hoped  to  have  accomplished  in  tracing  up  the  nation- 
ality of  Manasseh.  He.  however,  committed  a  great  error  in  treating  tn.»  three 
heads  of  the  Israel  itish  nation  as  one,  and  applying  the  various  scriptures  to  the 
one.  that  sho*ld  have  been  applied  to  the  three,  but  mainly  to  Judah,  which  drove 
him  to  the  irresistable  conclusion  that  the  United  States  was  to  be  perpetual, 
and  was  the  antitypical  Israel  of  the  Bible.  The  prophecies  that  give  perpetuity 
to  the  final  or  last  form  of  God's  government  on  earth,  are  numerous;  but  they 
must  uot  be  plased  to  the  credit  of  Manasseh  or  Ephraim.  but  to  Judah;  for  ail 
under  the  first  head*  pass  away,  and  the  three  must  reappear  and  ultimate  in  one, 
under  Judah  as  head.  In  this'alone  is  to  be  realized  all  that  is  promised  of  true 
earthly  greatness,  nationally  speaking.  But  I  am  forestalling  my  reader,  and 
will  return  to  Israel  under  Manasseh,  and  give  some  very  distinctive  marks  of  his 
Israel,  not  mentioned  by  Mr.  Baldwin. 

In  the  division  and  settlement  of  the  children  of  Israel,  in  the  land  of  promise, 
we  find  the  land  very  definitely  and  circumspectly  laid  o(f  into  thirteen  States 
{geographically.  After  Manasseh's  portioa  was  defined  in  1.6  ch.  Joshua,  we  find 
in  17  ch:  5  v.  that  "ten  portions  fell  to  Manasseh,  beside  the  land  of  Gilead  and 
Bashan,  which  were  on  the  other  side  Jordan,"  making  just  thirteen,  (for  the 
East  side  was  divided  into  three  lots.)  five  of  which  were  female  portions.  See 
same  ch.  3  and  4  v.  So  that  the  whole  land,  thus  divided  into  thirteen  lots,  three 
of  which  were  on  the  East  side  of  Jordan,  and  tea  on  the  West,  is  taken  as  the 
iWe  °f  or  number-  of  Manasseh's  kingdom.  One  ot  the  most  distinctive  marks 
was  the  five  female  lots,  or  states,  to  be  found  in  it.  Please  turn  to  the  original 
thirteen  of  1776,  and  see  if  you  will  not  find  five  of  them  to  be  female  ;  and  if  so, 
does  not  this  settle  the  point  of  its  identity  at  once,  and  remove  all  doubt?  North 
Carolina.  South  Carolina,  Virginia,  Maryland  and  Massachusetts.  With  the 
foregoing,  together  with  what  xMr.  Baldwin  has. said  to  the  point,  and  it  is  very 
much  indeed^  we  will  rest  the  matter,  for  the  present  at  least ;  holding  our  self 
ready  at  any  future  leisure  (which  we  have  not  now,)  to  give  much  additional 
scripture,  of  the  same  nature,  in  proof  of  our  position. 

Having,  with  the  assistance  of  Mr.  Baldwin,  tracel  up  the  three  great  typical 
nations  of  Ephraim,  Judah  and  Manasseh— the  two  first  to  their  end,  as  types — 
we  may  expect  the  third  to  end  likewise  ;  and,  from  puesent  indications,  the  time 
draweth  near.  For  immediately  after  the  first  Israel  added  royalty  to  its  govern- 
ment, it  began  to  grow  weak  aud  topple  to  its  fall  ;  and,  indeed,  may  be  said 
to  have  fallen  at  the  death  of  its  first  king;— for  after  that  event  there  remained 
but  the  semblance  of  a  government; — and,  immediately  thereafter,  we  find  the 
•orsreigQ  and  independent  Stat*  of  Judah  sectdtd  from  the  old  confederacy,  and 


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i*  uphoust  keeping  for  herself,  and  successfully  resisted     .  .,  her  inO*. 

pendence  was  acknowledged  by  the  whole  house  of  Israel,  who  ca»i!  down  lo 
Hebron  and  confederated  with  her  ;  and  she  then  reigned  over  the  whole  of  Judah 
mnl  Israel  seveuty-tbree  years.  Have  we  anything  correspon  ling  with  this  ia  our 
history ,  and  in  our  day  ?    Need  we  call  attention  to  wha*  the  election 

of.  the  AM  king  of  the  United  States?  (Which  ia  lianasseh's  kingdom,  or  mod- 
ern Sodom.)  We  find  the  same  leave  I  in  rapid  action;  and 
"Judah's  seven"  secede  from  the  new  confederacy,  and  the  building  o'~  the  uif 
Jerusalem  commences  under  the  gracious  promise  that  "Jerusalem  shall  be  in- 
habited as  towns  without  walls,  for  the  multitude  of  men  and  cattle  therein,  for  I, 
saith  the  Lord,  will  be  unto  her  a  wall  of  fire,  round  about;  and  will  be  the 
glory  in  th.i  midst  of  her  ;  and  the  Lord  shall  inherit  Judah  his  portion  in  tb^ 
holy  land,  and  shail  choose  Jerusalem  again."  We  close  for  the  present,  for  want 
of  time;  but  if,  through  the  wisdom  and  nu^rcy  of  the  "Xing  of  Kings  and  Lord 
of  Lords,  '  we  are  spared  until  next  spring,  we  shall  resume;  and  hnre  some.bing 
to  Fay  of  the  auti-types  of  the  three  typical  kingdoms  here  mentioned;  and  na- 
p  'dally  much  to  say  of  our  beloved  Confederate  States  of  America,  as  found  ia  th» 
Bible.  For  the  present ,  adieu  ! 
October,  1S63. 


CHAPTER    SEVENTH. 

WE  r#3ume  (April  1st,  1864.)  our  task,  left  off  in  October.  1863,  for  want  of 
leisure,  and  will  try  to  redeem  our  promise,  then  made  ;  and  will  first 
call  attention  to  the  fact  that  God's  chosen  people  made  three  distinct  periods  of 
conquest  of  the  heathen  nations  whose  land  they  were  to  possess,  and  three  dis- 
tinct settlements  of  the  same,  at  three  distinct  periods  of  time  ;  and  that  the  two 
fl-i  settlements  consisted  each  of  three  tribes,  and  the  last  settlement  of  seven 
tribes.  Now.  we  assume  that  the  first  settlement  of  three,  type  or  represent  that 
the  nation  6hould  have  three  national  heads,  under  its  first  or  typical  dispensa- 
tion ;  and,  further,  as  the  first  set  of  threes  was  not  in  the  promised  la 
Canaan — but  was  on  the  East  side  of  Jordan— that  this  fact  indicates  tha 
national  heads  they  represent  would  not  reach  the  promised  land  of  national  rest: 
that  the  stormy  political  Jordou  was  yet  between  them  and  that  rest.  Tl i<  B 
tribe,  in  first  set  of  threes,  is  Reuben  and  stands  for  the  first  kingdom  of  I  - 
which  we  have  shown  was  Ephraim  ;  the  second  tribe,  in  the  first  set  of  threes, 
!.  and  stands  for  the  secoud  confederate  head,  under  Judah  or  David  ;  and 
the  third  tribe,  in  said  set.  was  Manasseh,  and  represents  the  third  confederate 
under  Manasseh,  which  is  the  Uuited  States  of  America.  Iiaving  gono 
through  with  the  first  set  ot  threes,  wh  will  now  examine  the  character  given  to 
th^m  ;  for  whatever  was  their  character,  such  was  to  be  the  character  of  th« 
confederate  heads  that  they  severally  represent;  and  the  head3  must  appear 
chronologically,  as  the  tribal  settlers  named.  Reuben  was  not  to  excel,  though 
be  was  the  beginning  of  strength  :  he  was  as  unstable  as  water:  and  was  withal  a 
leacherousson,  and  the  tirst  born.  Was  not  that  the  character  of  the  first  born 
kingdom  of  Israel,  under  Ephraim  1    Though  it  '-was  the  might  and  the  beginning 

■  i.mal  strength,'  the  excellency  of  dignity,  and  the  excellency  ofpow 
waa  too  unstable  to  excel;  too  leacherous  to  retain  its  purity,  as  Joshua  left  it. 
Need   I  add  more  of  this   head  of  the  nation  ?     I  think'  not ;  as  all  Bible  i  • 
well  know  how  unstable  and  corrupt  it  became,  very  soon  after  Jothua's  death, 
and  ever  remained  unstable.     Next  in  order   is  Gad.     It  is  siiid  of  him  tl 
troop  Bho  lid  overcome  him:   but  he  should  overcome   at  last."    '-Blessed  be  be 
that  enlargeth  Gath  :  he  dwellcth  as  a  lion,  and  teareth  the  arm  with  the  crown 
Of  the  head  :  he  provided  the  first  part  for  himself,  b  -  iu  a  portion  of 

the  lawgiver  was  he  seated:  and  he  came  with  the  heads  of  the  people  :  he  exe 
CBted  the  justice  of  tin  Lord  and  his  judgments  with  Israel."    We  ask  :waa 
tfceefa  v  Judah  or  David '.'    Emph* 


govtu;.  rm :  himself,  and   all  the   sembl  'bad 

about  him,  were  dig  for  protection  td 

the  1<- :.d  of  the  heathen  nation  ot  the  Philistines.  His  government,  to  which  he 
was  anointed,  was  overcome  by  a  troop  too  numerous  for  him  ;  but,  finally,. he 
did  overcome,  and  triumph   most   gloriously,  for  •  years.     He  wa* 

said  to  dwell  at  a  Li.or>,  and  teareth  the  arm  of  power  that  had  stood  in  his  way  ; 
and  with  it,  also,  the  crown  of  glory,  from  the  head  that  had  woi  i  placed 

it  upon  his  own  .royal  head.  And  with  Judah'a  noted  lion  mark,  he  has,  also, 
the  law -giver  feature,  promised  to  Judah.  Now,  we  have  no  scriptural 
evidence  whatever  that  Gad  ever  accomplished  what  is  here  promised,  or  that 
y.  troop  overcame  him.  It  does  not  lit  Gad  ;  but  it  does  the  kingdom  of  David  or 
Israel  under  Judah;  and,  as  Gad  in  second  named  in  the  first  settlement  of  ■'■ 
and  has  Judah'a  distincive  features  or  marks  about  him,  then  we  conclude  that 
Jjidah'a  national  head  should  appear  second;  and  the  fact  that  It  did,  proves  our 
conclusion  to  a  demonstration.  The  next  settler,  (being  the  third  and  last  of 
the  three,)  was  Manasseh,  and  represents,  in  order  And  character  his  own  confed- 
erate head.  And  first  :  his  order,  or  number,  was  third;  and  so  must  be  his  con- 
federate head.  Was  it  so  ?  It  certainly  was.  The  United  States  of  America 
ird  in  the  order  of  kingdoms  that  have  arisen  in  the  history  of 
it  peculiar   confederate   type:  and  a.  -  s  cannot  be 

-or,  1  think.  ■  ball  say  no   more  upon  the  ord<     o 

time,  but  shall  proceed,  at  once,  to  examine  the  character  given  to  Manasseh,  as 
it  is  to  be  the  character  of  h  tnent. 

In  the  settlement  of  the  three  above  named  tribes,  on  the  !  of  Jordan,* 

it  is  said,  in  Numbers  thexxxiic  s   gave  unto  them   the  kingdom 

of  the  Amorite,  and  the  kingdom  of  JJashan;"  and  39  v.  "the  children  of  Machir 

on  of  Manasseh  went  to  Gilead,  and  took  it,  and  dispi  ie  Amorite 

.  was  in  it.  ■     Here  we  in   as  his  inheritance  is  allotted  to  fain 

and  warlike  prowess 
•w  of  Manasseh;  and  he  dwelt  therein.  And 
Jair  the  son  of  Manasseh  went  and  took   the  small  tovi  ■:.    And  Ncbah 

went  and  took  Kenath.  Again,  in  the  xvii  ch.  of  Joshua,  1  v.,  it  is  said  "Gilead 
and  Bashan  wer<  lir  the  son  of  Mi 

In  the  14th  v.  the  children  of  Joseph  (Ephraim  and  Manasseh,)  complain 
to  Joshua  because  territory  enough  had  not  been  given  thei  ;  that  they 

were  a  "great  people;"  and  Joshua,  in  the  15th  verse  replied:  "If  thou  be  a 
great  people,  then  get  thee  up  to  the  wood  country,  and  cut  down  for  thyself 
There  in  the  land  of   the  P<  [ants,  if  mount  be  too 

narrow  for   thee.     And    they   in   turn   reply:  ••  The  hill  is  not  enough  i' :>: 

:  Joshua  replies:  "Thou  art  a  great  p  

The  mountain  shall  be  thine  ;  for  it  is  a  wood,  and  thou  shalt  cut  it  down  :  and 

S  of  it  shall  be  thine  :  for  thou  shall;  drive  oat  the  Canaanites,  th 
they  have  iron  chariots,  and  though  they  be  stron  ill  add  one  more 

tare,  of  character  to  th  done,  for  tl 

See  Joshua,  xxii  ch:  7,  8  v.,  where  he  sends  them  away  wi 

"Return  with  much  riches  unto  your  tents,  and  with  very  much  cattle,  with  Bli- 
nd with  gold,  and  with  brass,  and  with  iron,  and  with  very  much  raiment  : 
divide  the  spoil  of  your  enemies  with  your  brethren."  If  this  is  not  sufficient: 
"You  would  not  believe,  though  one  should  arise  from  the  dead."  The  applica- 
bility of  all  the  foregoing,  to  the  United  States,  is  so  easy,  simple,  and  self-evident, 
that  we  might  otfond  common  apprehension  by  making  the  application.  We, 
howevejr,  will  recapitulate;  Manasseh  was  th':  third  settler,  of  first  settlement; 
and  as  the  third  settler  typed  the  third  kingdom  of  Israel,  in  order  of  time  and 
Character,  whatever  kingdom,  therefore,  tha  d  that  pecul 

and  arose   after  ingdo  el,  under  D  ae  in 

tended  by  prophecy,  if    the  chai  lich   all  mu  I 

warlike,  indomital 

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b#en  bit  offby  a  master  hand,  Ho  the  very  life."  Again,  in  the  56th  verse,  it  is 
laid  to  Jerusalem  :  "Thy  sister  Sodom  was  not  mentioned  (<jr  named,)  by  thy 
mouth  in  the  day  of  thy  pride,"  or  excellency.  Why  not?  For  the  very  good 
reason  that  she  did  not  at  t hat  time  exist.  Jerusalem  knew  nought  of  her,  for  she 
did  not  arise  until  176b*.  This  proves  that  ancient  Sodom  is  not  intended  ;  for, 
doubtless,  old  Sodom  was  often  in  the  mouth 'of  Jerusalem.  The  reader  will 
also  recollect  the  significant  fact  that  Washington  city,  and  its  government,  has, 
for  the  last  thirty  years.,  been  familiarly  called  " modern  Sodom"  in  political  cir- 
cles ;  thus,  as  if  guided  by  inspiration,  to  give  her  her  proper  or  prophetic  name 
— not  knowing  at  the  time  that  she  was  "spiritually  called  Sodom."  Here,  iu 
this  xvi  chapter  of  Ezekiel,  as  in  many  similar  presentations  of  this  subject  in 
the  Bible,  is  kept  in  view  this  three  in  one  form,  and  at  the  same  time  the  plurali- 
ty under  each  form  of  the  government  of  God's  people.  "Jerusalem,  and  her 
daughters;  Samaria,  and  her  daughters;  Sodom,  and  her  daughters;  corres- 
ponding, as  before  noticed,  to  the  confederate  heads  of  the  people,  and  with  the 
several  state  government  of  each.  These  three  "sisters"  being  disposed  of  by 
the  sacred  historian  as  types,  we  are  informed  that  all  three  shall  return  again  to 
their  former  standings  ;  and  then  "Samaria  and  Sodom"  are  to  be  given,  or  joined 
to,  "Jerusalem,  for  daughters."  53d  verse  :  "When  I  shall  bring  again  their 
captivity,  the  captivity  of  Sodom  and  her  daughters,  and  the  captivity  of  Sama 
jia  and  her  daughters,  then  will  I  bring  again  the   captivity  of  thy  captives  in 

the  midst  of  them When  thy  sisters,  Sodom  and  her  daughters,  shall 

return  to  their  former  estate,  (standing)  and  Samaria  and  her  daughters  shall 
return  to  their  former  estate,  then  thou  and   thy  daughters  shall  return  to  your 

former  estate Then   thou  shalt  remember  thy  ways,  and  be  ashamed, 

when  thou  shalt  receive  thy  sisters,  thine  elder  and  thy  younger  :  and  I  will  give 
them  unto  thee  for  daughters,  but  not  by  thy  covenant."  So  we  leave  them  here, 
---as  we  have  done  once  before— holding  them  all  as  types  ;  and  shall  seek  for, 
and  point  out,  some  of  the  promises  of  their  anti-types  and  anti-type  ;  for  they 
are  e»ch  a  type  of  themselves,  as  three,  and  also  of  inemselves  as  one,  after  the 
confederation  under  Jerusalem,  as  just  quoted  above.  These  have  all  been,  in 
part,  realizing  nationalities;  and  have  been  so,  progressively,  from  the  first  to 
the  last.  Ephraim  was  first,  or  "elder;"  "was  the  beginning  of  strength  and  ex- 
cy;"  but  only  the  beginning.  He  realizes  or  effects  least  of  the  three  ;  he 
oo  corrupt  and  unstable.  Judah,  or  Jerusalem,^ucceeds  him,  (after  a  hard 
struggle,  in  which,  at  first,  he  was  overcome,)  and  becomes  much  more  realizing 
than  Ephraim.  and  seemed  to  bid  fair  to  accomplish  all  that  was  to  have  been 
expected,  under  the  oft-repeated  promises  to  the  Feathers  and  Patriarchs.  Wit- 
ness the  triumphs  of  David's,  and  the  wisdom  and  splendor  of  Solomon's  reigns  ; 
yet  he,  too,  passed  away  :  showing,  thus,  that  he,  like  Ephraim,  was  a  type  ;  and 
us  Ephraim  typed  him,  he,  in  turn,  must  type  his  successor  and  brother,  Manas- 
seh,  Sodom,  the  "younger,"  or  United  States  of  1778,— which  nation,  iu  the 
*hOrt  space  of  eighty-four  years  has  accomplished  more,  under  God,  her  author, 
for  the  general  emancipation  and  advancement,  or  elevation;  or,  in  short,  for 
the  political  redemption  of  the  earth,  than  all  others  put  together,  since  the 
world  began; — so  Jacob,  the  third  father  of  national  promise,  accomplished  more, 
nationally,  as  before  remarked,  than  Abraham  and  Isaac.  But  as  he  was  a 
brother  of  the  two  preceding  nations,  and  settled  first  on  the  East  side  of  Jordan, 
and  not  in  the  promisod  laud  of  Canaan,  (as  they  also  had  done  by  representa- 
tives,) he  also  was  a  type,  and  must  pass  away;  and  as  he  is  now  repidly  dissolv- 
ing, Judah  the  first  settler,  of  the  second  three  tribes,  and  on  the  West  side  of  Jor- 
dan, strictly  within  the  promised  land  of  Canaan — Judah,  the,  final  and  realizing 
head  of  God's  ancient  people:  Judah,  the  beloved  of  the  Lord  ;  Judah,  the 
mount  Zion  of  his  choice,  appears,  looming  up,  majestically,  from  the  political 
horizon.  She  was  born  in  a  day,  according  to  the  prophecy  of  Isaiah  lxvi  eh:  8  v.; 
and  that,  too,  without  labor  pains,  or  previous  travailing  pangs.  Verse  7th  : 
"Before  she  travailed,  she  brought  forth  ;  before  her  pain  came,  she  was  deliver- 
ed of  a  man  child."  Now,  this  man  child,  in  the  8th  verse  is  said  to  be  a  nation, 
and  to  have  been  bom  at  onc.-j;  born  in  a  day.    8th  wrse :  "Who  hath  haard 


58 

•■'•  be  eartKV  mado  to  bring  forth 

Snob  an  event  ha<i  nev 
before  ;  h 

for  there  *  <- 

within  waa.    Then  if 

if  go,  whal  .  at  on  f    > 

re^uored  implies  that  b 

given  birth  •  and  I.  is 

Bhe  not  been  in  er  since  .-:  iiith? 

but  I  i  able  to  Bee,  at  present; 

h  wril    be  the   reMilt  of  her  labor  pang*, 
h."  iu  the  7th  and  8th  i  erw  9,  then,  ai 
before  Who.  it,.  ■;;  is  said  to   have  br< 

forth  '  '  nnmber-  -  she  commenced  travailing  1    Jt 

pon  national  travail  • 
"Zinn"  is  a  nation,  and  a  nation  in  travail,  and  bringing  forth,  must  be  bi 

•  •<!  children.  She  is  also  called  Jerusalem. iii  the  1 
says,  iu  tl  illl  bring  to  tbe  birth  - 

Lord:  shall  T  cause  to  bring  fond  and  shut  the  womb?  No,  verilj  : 

ir  bii  th,  as  a  nation,  aod  ea 

I  H<;  will    not;  e  lit  up. 

the.  v  that  birth    ■  ball  flow  apace. 

births  into  our  rerse: 

for  joy  with  her,  urn  lor  h  >■■ 

•>vith  tl  .  .  for  Behold.  I  -  :  like 

a  rirer,  and  the  glory  i  j     use  whom 

his  mother  con  ed  in  Je 

rusalero; and  the  hand  of  the  I  pants, 

and  his  in1'.  iroies.     For.   behold,  the  Lord  will  epme   w    ii 

fire,  ai  whirlwind,  to  render  hi  r  wi  h  fm  v.  and  his 

'  I  the  Lord  pie  id  wuti 
.  from  beginning  th,  or 

.  bo,  to  the 

■ 
ruBalym."  •■ 

cal  raountain.th  ii  mountain" 

•  n.)  "without  he 
?oon  '-becai  .'  after 

daahin  uotato,  before  it 

werful 

to  become  such,  that 

Which    is  only  another  name  or 

■ 

none.  seven,  above  noticed; 

V|  id  -'cutout 

im  to  be  the  fen.    The  hands,  we   all  know, 

be  standard  and  undeviating  b\m\  .    the  8tonu 

out  bands,  it  was  Amply  accompli e  "juetaa  the 

obildwa  the*Cenfederate  State    of  i.  or  cut 

h     vr  S<  d<  m,  ;.:  that 

dftj      ol       '     . 

-1.  the  result ;  for  I  qn 
North 

.  i    i 


,  uatil  travail  commenced 
v  is  announced  "as  soon,"  '.  ' -'  upon  travail,  children  are  born  unto 

her.  So,  if  Mr.  Lincoln  had  let  us  rest  quiet  and  unmolested  after  our  peaceful, 
nnlaborious  birth,  be  might  have  retained  his  fair  daughters  ;  he,  otherwise, 
quickly  lost.  While  upon  the  subject  of  the  birth  of  the  "man  child,"  we  will 
notice  the  birth  of  a  "man  child"  that  took  place  some  eighty-four  years  prior 
to  the  one  above.    See   Revelations,   xii  ch  :  "A  woman  clothed  with  the 

he  moon  under  her  feet,  and  upon  her  head  a   crows  -tars  :  and 

eing  with  child  cried,  travailing  in  birth,  and  pained  to  be  delivered.  .... 
And  she  brought  forth  a  man   child,  who  was  to  rule   all  nations  wiih  a  rod  of 
iron."    And  if  all  nations,   our  nation  is  included,  unless  we  can  show  that  the 
.  born  in  Ixvi  ch.  Isaiah,  7  v.,  called  there  a  "man  child,"  is  ours  and  is 
ring  and  heir  of  the   first  man  child.      Mr.  Baldwin  has  shown,   to  my 
•e  satisfaction,  that  the  nation  born  in  the  person  of  this  first  man  ch 
other  than  the  Unified  States;  or,  as  we  may  say,  Manasseh's  kingdom.    Now, 
te  United  States  has  not  done  what  is  here  said  she  was  to  do,  and  never  will, 
:■  her  present  head  of  number  three,  or  third  kingdom  of  Israel,  how  is  the 
We  solve  it  thus :  Whatever  is  promised  in  scripture  to 
on,  we  must  look  for  its  fulfillment,  first,  in  his  person;  and  if  hot  fulfilled 
in  his  person,  we  next  go  down  his  line  of  descendants,   personal,  if  the  thing  h 
mal;  but  if  national,  follow  on  after  his  nationality.    Viz  :  if  a  promise  is 
:  recorded  to  Judah,  (or  a  curse  either,)  first  apply  it  to  the  individual  man, 
Judah  ;  if  not  fulfilled  to  the  man,  or  is  not  applicable  to  him,*then  it   is  legiti- 
mate and  proper  next  to  apply  it  to  the  tribe  of  Judah  ;  if  still   no  fulfillment  it; 
or  is  inapplicable,  next  apply  it  to   the  kingdom  of  Judah,  under  its*  first 
but  it  no  fulfillment  is  yet  found,  follow  up  the  kingdom  in  its  next  form, 
yon  find  fulfillment;  for  it  must,  and  will,  take  place  just  at  the 
time,  and  in  the  manner,  that  inspiration  foretold.    And  whatever  is  | 

-  .  is  to  him  as  a  king,  aud  is  always  political,  and  may  be  fulfilled  to  liirn  in 
lom,  oj,'  his  successor.    Whatever  was  promised  David,  the  kin 

and  if  not,  it  descended  to  his  regal  heirs  :  and  as  much  was 
a  not  yet  been  fulfilled,  we  may  look  expectantly  for  i 
tnt  under  this,  his  kingdom  under  its  secend  head,  and  fourth  "head  of  the 
.  and  6rst  head  of  the  anti-typical  three.    Now,  as  the  man 
i  of  the  woman  was  to  become  the  political  ruler  of  all  nations  ;  a 
United  States  is  proven  to  be  the  nation  intended  by  the  man  child  ;  ahi 
dissolved,  and  is  rapidly  passing  away   without  receiving,  in  her 
met,  it  is  legitimate  to  transfer  the  promise  ta  her  regal  descendant.    The 
tion,  then,  is  who  is  her  national  offsp  horn  has  she  given  birth  ?     We 

rer  unhesitatingly,  as  we  have  before  done,  tbeCpnfede  ofAtneri- 

If  she  is  not  our  mother,  we  have,  none,  and  are  in  a  sad  predicament; 
i  in  orphanage;  we  are  a  bastard;  and  "shall  not  enter  into  the  congre- 
the  Lord  until  the  tenth  generation  ;"  which   docs  sot  suit  me  at  all. 
old  lady.  1  admit,  is  treating  us  rather  badly  ;  but,  nevertheless,  we  must 
not  deny  cur  parautfige,  for  thei  lay  hold'on  the  promises  unfulfilled  to 

ker,    The  genealogy  must  not  be  broken  in  upon.    She  gave  us  birth  ;  the 

r  child;  born  without  any  effort  or  labor  of  hers,  to  be  sure,  but  none  the 
I.    She  is  the  "she"  of  verse  7,  Isaiah  lxvi;  and  is  the  mother  of  "Zion" 
of  verse  Stb,  that  was  born  in  a  day;  which  "Zion"  immediately  travails,  and 
gs  forth  her  children;  and  will  continue    to  bring   forth,  until  "all  nations 
kindred  and  tongues,"  "all  fowls  of  every  wing"  shall  take  shelter  beneath 
goodly  cedar  of  Lebanon.    "This  stone  is  to  fill  the  whole  earth."    This  ston« 
r  the  old  dispensation  was  "Zion,"  the  city  of  David:  which  city  was  a 
.stronghold,  a  fortified  position  on  a  mount  of  that  name  that  commc    . 
the  city  of  Jerusalem  ;  and  hence  Jerusalem  was  so  often  called  the  "dau 
being  the  feminine,  and  more  defenceless  representative  of  th< 
eminent;  and  the  two  taken  together  are  called  the  "double  city.'' or      '. 
i  the  two  lions  of  God  ;  that  is,  the  "lion  aad  lioness  of  God.*' 

• 


p  . 
e,  and  looked  upon   tl  time  oi  love  :  and  1 

ppread  my  skirt  over  t"'  •    sware  onto  thee, 

and  entered  into  a  covenant  wilh   thee,  saith  the  Lord   God,  and  thou  becamtGt 
mine."     13th  verse  :  "And  tl  Depec 

into  a  Thus  the  person  add]  .'  and 

became  "renowned"  and  pr<  inder  David  and  Solomon; 

ftnd  retaining  its  renown  in  Mil  finally,  for  its  cox 

tion,  God  divorced  himself  from   her.    L  chapter  of  Isaiah:  '-Thus   saith  the 
Lord,  Where  is  the  bill  of  jronr  i  «    "  n»»nt,  whom  J  have  put  away  . 

"BeliC  Hid  yourselves,  and  for  your  transgrei 

ia  your  moth-'r  |  This  is  not  hi.3  church,  as  is  commonly  sups 

bnt  *  tund  of  authority  tor  it.    To  satisfy  yourself,   read 

again  the  xvi  ch  of  Ezekiel.    Thfa  kingdom  here  divorced,  or  put  aw 
called  ''barren  and  do.   .  irren  and  desolate,  after  a  time, 

the  bosom  of  God.  her  former  husband;  wa  :ier,  Isaiah 

liv  ch:  5  v. :  "Thj  ;  thine  husband  ;  the  Lord  of  hosts  is  hij  name  ;  and 

thy  Redeemr  the    Holy  <  >ne  of  Israel ;  .  .  .  for  the  Lord  hath  called  the  ! 

[or  divorced]  "and  gi  ;'irit.  and  a  wife  of  youth,  when 

thou  wast  refused:"  wh  i  is  now  addressed,  in  the  1st  verse,  thu 

too  that  did  [that  is,  during  her  divon  'orth 

nging.  and  cry   •  that  didst  not  travail  with  child :"  [dune 

lent,]  "for  mm-  lildren  of  the  desolate"  [that  was 

but  now  no  Ion;"  !  children  ot  the  married  wife,  saith  the  Lord.'' 

2d  verse  :  "Enlarge  the  place  of  tby  tent,"  [the  country  of  thy  dwel 
let  them  stretch  forth  the  curtains  of  thine  sn  thy 

and  strengthen  thy  stakes  ;   for"  [now  that  the  worn 
Lord  said  he  would  not  el<  Peak  forth  [in  births]  oi 

right  hand  and  on  the  left  ;  and  thy  seed   shall  inherit  the   Gentiles,  aud 
the  desolate  citiei  I  i  ed."    This  is  ali  said  of  'Jerusalem;"  ■  2 

the  stone  cut  out  of  tl;  so  lxvi  ch. 

kingdom  which  was  n  .  of  the  Confedei  of  America,  the  real- 

b    •;■•  promise  to 

ih  planted  by  the  Lor:'  nality  com 

ia  the  rich,  of  Isaiah  ;  there 

in  turn,  personates  his  own  nationality.    The  spirit  ol 
This  government;  the  spirit  of  wisdom,  of   might,  of  understand 
edge,  of  judgment,  eqnity,  *c.    The 
lamb  ;   the  leopard  into  a*  kid;  the  lion,  the  tailing. 
alike:  the  ferocious  animals  here  personate  political  perso:. 

wore  no  longer  to  ex  I  -eek  aud  harmless  as  the  domes- 

tic animals  they  are.  I  o  be  ranging  i  tag  with.    9  th  verse: 

atroy  ia  all   my  holy  mountain  :  for  the  earth  shall  be  lull 
- 

nothing  more  Lor  le:, 
a  holy  or   pure  governmes  ,   po   often  promi 

again,  w  earth.    Ch*  "he  was  the 

root  and  offspring"'    [branch]  "oi  David,  who  was  of  .Ire---.'      "His  t 
glorious :  and  unto  him  shall  the  Gentiles  seek.''     11  ill  cume  to 

in  that  clay,  that  the  Lord  shall  set  bis  hand  aga  time  to  reoov- 

inant  of  his  geople,  which  shall  be  left"  among  the   heat: 
-et   up  an  ensign  for  the   nation  I  ■ -able  fee  outcasts  of 

,  and  gather  together  the  dispersed  of  Judah  from  the  lour  corners  of  the 
'I  he  !-i.  pfaraim  shall  depart,  and  the  adversaries  of  Judah  shall 

toff:  Ephraim  shall  not  envy  Judah,   and  Judah  shall  not  ;aim." 

Here  we  hi  '  and  must  be  political;  for  no  man  ever  heard 

of  a  Mid  then  the  political  rulers  of  the  Isrc 

bo  large  a  space  in  the  pic: 
forced  to  tee  the  politu 


i?6 

further,  confirmatory  of  the  above,  is  the  fact  that  iiumeduilely  after  Ibis  prom- 
ised restoration,  it  is  said  that  these  nations,  restored  aud  joined. ''shall  h*y  upon 
loulders  of  the  Philistines  toward  the^west :  they  shall  spoil  them  of    the 
eas<  together.:  they  (shall  lay  their  baud''  [hand  is  power,  and  being  singular, 
of  the  nation  at  this  time,]  '-upon  Edom  and  Moab  ;  and  the 
ion  shall  obey  them."     These  are  symbois  of  monarchy ,  that  is 
ever?  t  I  should  be  destroyed  by  God's  ancient  people,  when  restored  to 

nationality.     The  fact,  is  again  repeated  in  the  15ih  verse  :  '-And  the  Lord 
i  destroy  the  tongue  of  the  Egyptian  sea  5  [another  symbol  ot  monar- 
ghty  wind  shall  he.  shake  his  hand  over   the  river,"  [mon- 
"and  shall  Bmite  it  in  the  seven  streams, and  make  men  go  over  dryshod. .  . 
it  was  to  Israel  in  the  day  that  he  came  up  out  oi   the  land  of  Egypt." 
, .as  a  mighty  river,  made  up  of  swen  rivers,   stands  in  the  way  of  the 
universal  triumph  of  God's  government*  just  as  the  Red  Sea  stood  in  the  way  of 
iidren  of  Israel's  escape  from  the  monarchy  of  Egypt;  and  is  here,  as  that 
was.  to  be  wrought  upon  by  a  mighty  wind  ;  and  smitten  also  as  it  was  ;  and  the 
is  to  be  the  same,  so  far. as  effecting  a  fait;  passage  to  his  people  :  but  in 
afcter  case,  the  sea  was  10  be  utterly  destroyed;  and  corresponds  exactly  with 
smiting  of  the   great  monarchy  image  ot  Nebuchadnezzar  by  "the  stone  cut 
i Shout  hands,"  utterly  destroying  it.  and  at  once  taking  its 
.  and  "filling  the  whole  earth."     This  frequent  -'dashing"  and  '-smiting"  of 
mbols  of  monarchy,  in  the  scriptures,   points  significantly  to  the  "battle  of 
the  great  day"  to  be  fought  by  God's  ancient   people,  represented  by  their  regal 
successors,  on  the  mountains  of  Iarael,  after  their   union  or  confederation  with 
;'.  between  whom  there  existed,   for  a  time,  a   breach,  or    broken  state,  as 
3d  it  now  does.    This  battle  is  none  other  than  "Armageddon,"  now  soon  to 
aght  ;  bat  not  until  the  North,   as  "Samaria  and  Sodsm."  are   given  and 
joined  to   the  new  Jerusalem,   or  Confederate  States,   and  we    all  become  one 
mighty  nation  again  ;  more  mighty  by  having  beta  broken  for  a  time. 

Upoa  the  restoration  and  re-building  of  Judah  or  Jerusalem,  Zechariah  is 
very  full  and  explicit :  opening  his  book  upon  that  very  subject.    la  its  first  sense 
hie  restoration  has  direct  reference  to  the  return  of  the  Jews  from  their  seventy 
years  captivity,   under  Babylon;  their   re  building  of  their  city,  temple,  &c;  all 
of  which  is  typical.     Haggai  prophecied  at  the  same  time,  to  encourage  the  peo- 
ple in  their  work  ;  and  in  connection  with  Zechariah,  we  shall  notice  some  things 
be  says  upon   the  subject.    They  both  lived  and   wrote  during  the  time  of   said 
return  and  re-building;  and  where  they  say  anything   upon  that  subject,   in  its 
first  sense,  it  has  reference  to  those  events  then  transpiring  ;  but  when  not  true 
of  the  nation  under  that   restoration,  (which  much  was  not.  that  was  spoken  by 
the  various  prophets.)  then  the  reference  is  to  the  "latter  day,"  or  grand  and 
final  restoration  of  God's  people  to   nationality.     What  is  here  said  of  Zerubba- 
the  Governor  under  whose  administration  this  typical  restoration  took  place, 
— as  well  as  what  is  said  of  Joshua,  the  High  Priest — must  be  considered  as  typi- 
ml,  also.     We  believe  there  is  no  diversity  of  opinion,  among    our  learned  com- 
mentators, in  saying  that  very  much,  and  the  more   important  part  of  what  waa 
gaid  and  promised  the  Jews,  on  their  return  from  the  Babylonish  captivity,  wan 
not  realized  by  them  ;  and  hence  we  conclude  that  said  restoration  was  only  9,typy 
eed  one  :  land,  names  and  all.    So  we  shall  make  use  of  them  as  such.     Haggai  is 
directed  by  the  Lord   to  say  to  Zerubbabel,    the  Governor;   Joshua,    the  High 
Priest;  and  to  the  people  :  "  Be  strong,  and  work  ;  for  I  am  with  you,  saith  thd 
Lord."    "The  glory  of  this  latter  house  shall  be  greater  than  of  the  former,  saith 
the  Lord  of  hosts."    This  was  not  true  of  the  temple  built  at  this  time,  and  so 
must  refer  to  another  house,  yet  to  be  built.    Again  Haggai  is  directed  to  "speak 
to  Zerubbabel,  governor  of  Judah,  saying,  I  will  shake  the  heavens  and  the  earth; 
and  I  will  overthrow  the  throne  of  kingdoms,  and   I  will  destroy  the  strength  cf 
the  kingdoms  of  the  heathen  ;  and  I  will  overthrow  the  chariots,  and  those  that 
ride  in  them.  ...  In  that  day,  saith  the  Lord  of  hosts,  will    I  take  thee,  O  Zer- 
ubbabel, my  servant,  and  make  tbee  a3   a  signet :  for  I  have  chosen  thee,  saith 
:i.c  Lord  oi  hosts."     These  things  were  not  done  or  accomplished  under  the  rule 


•f  Zcr  ■:  wu  i  u  J  •  i  lignet  or  seal,  that  bhey  ihould  be  deos  ;  i 

>,  which    H  livalent  to  an  oath,  ] 

away,  without  the  thi  •  istihed  in  i 

i ttbbab  i 

1  will  pass  by  ci 
though  very  full  J  do  hope  and  trui 

>  band,  so  as  hu  may  read  the  j  ropheciee  we  ri 

>r  iv.:  "And 
...    and  said  unto  me. 
tiiou  '.'    Aad  1  said,  I   have  Looked,  ana  bebold   a  candlestick  ail  of  g 
bowl  upon  the   tope  ,.   and  aevei    |  3  the 

.leupoti   the  top  ;  And  two  olive  tiv<_*  b>   it,  one 

npoa  the  ngnt  1  1  .  1  t  te   otber  upon  tue  left  aid  1  .So  X 

...d  .-pake  to  the  1 
my  Lord  .'  .  .  .   l  ben  he 

tue  Lord   unto  Zerubb  , 

biu  bj 

know  what  they  s  L  aska  tue  angel 

.  leatiua  by  ,  Lprd  a  words  of  c'omuaissiou  and 

Zerubbable,  wiio  he   uad  .  build  Jerusal     1 ;  in  short,  to   1 

the  restoration  of  the  Jewish  m  irther,  for  the  encoara 

the  builders,  and  .  ,.  tvDy 

opposing  bhetacle;  bui 
in  the  way  of  Go 
become  a  plain  ;  and  he  BUall  bring  i 
crying 

work,  for  it  was  not  by  his  in  ,a  ;  u.^    b 

fcpuit  of  toe  Lord. 

•.bk:  have  laid 
and  ti 
you."     .Po  not  toi 

but    we    Da\ 
10th    verse  :   •  ■.  e  ^ay 

of  sm/.dl  things  has  din 
before  noticed.  11  a  : 
of  email  things,   Let  1 

.  i 
"Ij'oi  tbej 

■wan  thobe  seven  ;  they    [Zeruooabel  and   tne  .- 
whicb  .jie  earth/3    Here  ends  the  ang 

nation  ot  the  c... 

asks  no  more  about  it.    Lie  next  wi\  ,.v  what  the  two  olive  treed 

Bigutiy,  uud  ia  I  -y  are  "The  two  ano  ..  3d  one »,  that  .stand  by  the  Lofd 

ot  tne  \siiule  earth,  '  being  synonymous  s\ .  that  were 

for  three  daya  and  a  bail :  wh  eti  w  ia  shown  to  be  the  dual  Israel  of  God,  0 

Le  in  Unurch  and  state.  No  •  i  en-branch- 

ed  caudleetick,  •  mgett     I   understand  him   to  say,  as  plain 

d  be,  iuat  thia  1  babel  was  set  to 

:  1  and  that   no  .  ;:^  oould  ^top  tat  a^ 

ktia   1.  •  laid  tuv,  fuuud  itiou,  , 

; 
j.i  t  te  anti  tj 

Zerubbaoe)  of  tli 

- 
i.     .No  mater  what  may  be 
b*r  of  tyei  or  States,  or  yet  brancbee  to  th.a  geidea  caadlestick,  ahe  first  ur 


I  er,  by  which  sue  is  to  be  identified.  We  would  like  to  % o  through 
this  Prophet,  with  the  render,  for  our  mutual  benefit,  but  must  deter  it  for  the 
present,  as  our  limits— made  very  limited,  for  want  of  printing  facilities — forbid. 
It  may  be  proper  here  to  notice  the  fact  that  John  the  Revelator,  mentions  a 
similar  Candlestick,  as  the  one  above;  and  that  it  is  said  to  represent  the  seven 
churches'  to  which  the  address,  iu  the  first  of  his  book,  is  delivered.  This  is  all 
just  as  it  should  bo.  Thiire  are  two  of  those  candlesticks  mentioned.  One  of 
them  represents  the  Israel  of  God  in  Church;  and  the  other  one  represents  the 
very  same  Israel  in  State,  or  nationally.  There  were  ''two  olive  trees/"  "two 
candlesticks,"  "two  prophets  or  teachers/'  "two  witnesses,7'1  &c,  which  are  nil 
synonymous  terms,  and  mean  one  and  the  same  things  ;  that  is,  the  dual  Israel 
of  God  ; — God*t  people  in  (Jhuroh  and  State. 


CHAPTER    NINTH. 


THE  xxxvii  of  Ezekiel,  from  the  1st  verse  to  the  14th  inclusive,  introduces  us 
to  the  whole  house  of  Israel  as  not  only  a  disrupted,  but  as  a  dead  and 
buried  nation  ;  and  spoken  at  the  time,  too,  of  the  actual  state  above  referred  to. 
This  is  the  familial  "vision  of  the  valley  of  dry  bones;"  which,  in  its  sequel, 
verses  12,  13,  and  14,  brings  them  to  national  life  again,  united  as  one  ;  as  the 
address  was  to  the  "whole  house,1-"  and  called,  as  before,  God's  people.  4,Be- 
hold,  0  my  people,  I  will  open  your  graves,  and  cause  you  to  come  .up  out  of 
your  graves,  and  bring  you  into  the  land  of  Israel.  And  ye  shall  know  that  I 
am  the  Lord  when  I  have  opened  your  graves,  O  my  people,  and  brought  you  up 
out  of  your  graves,  and  shall  put  my  spirit  in  you,  and  ye  shall  live,  aud  I  shall 
place  you  in  your  own  land  :  then  shall  ye  know  that  I  the  Lord  have  spoken 
and  performed  it,  saith  the  Lord."  The  "house  of  Israel"  was  one,  and  the 
"house  of  Judah"  was  one;  but  the  "whole  house  of  Israel"  was  Jacob's  twelve 
eons,  their  descendants  or  regal  representatives.  All  of  Israel  were  not  Jews  ; 
but  one  tribe  only  bore  that  name,  and  individuals  of  other  tribes  that  affiliated 
■with  them;  yet  ail  Jews  were  Israelites  ;  hence,  we  should  be  careful  to  distin- 
guish between  the  "two  families"'  of  Israel.  One  was  Joseph's  house,  and  em- 
braced ail  Israel  as  natural  descendants  of  Jacob,  who  was  called  Israel  "&•■■ 
he  had  power  with  God  and  man.  and  kad'prevailed;"  and  Joseph's  was  the  birth- 
right, and  as  such  ho  inherited  t)  cue  ;  for  it  was  to  be  kept  up  by 
some  one,  and  that  one  of  course  v/a,;  the  birthright,  sun.  Judah's  "house"  was 
instituted  and  kept  separate  from,  though  within,  the  house  of  Joseph,  for  the 
specific  benefit  (or  use,  if  you  like  it  better,)  of  the  promised  Messiah  or  Shiloh  ; 
for  it  was  said  of  Judah  Shiloh  should  come,  and  of  Judah  he  did  come  ;  and  in 
and  over  Judah  began,  in  initial,  his  reign  asking,  in  the  person  of  his  regal 
father,  David.  We  return,  to  consider  the  foregoing  promise  to  the  "whole  house 
of  Israel"  of  national  restoration;  and  as  no  such  restoration  took  place  under 
the  old  dispensation-  i  r.  Baldwin  has  shown  satisfactorily,  with  some 
additional  proofs  by  ourself,  in  another  part  of  our  pamphlet,  that  Israel  has 
been  restored  under  this  latter  day  dispensation,  we  will  claim  at  once  that  the 
above  promise  found  its  full  realizationin  the  rise  of  the  "whole  house"  of  Israel 
or  United  States;  and  as  there  was  uo  promise  of  perpetuity  annexed  to  this 
restoration,  we  take  it  for  granted  that  permanency  was  not  to  bo  expected, 
when  not  even  implied  ;  in  fact,  that  dissolution  was  arid  is  inevitable  d  has 
not  said,  in  plain  tenns,  io  the  contrary;  tor  all  of  the  }  t  iratioa 
are  strongly  marked  aod  fortified  by  "everlasting,"  i  And  what 
are  the  facts  iu  I  >rd  of  the  Lord 
came  again  unt .  -ophecy,  by  the  word  com- 
ing "again"  at  anothe  ,  or  hour,  or 
afterwards  ;  it  matters  not.  And  that  word  ?  Veree  ItJth  e 
thee  one  stick;  aud  write  noon  it,   For               i  id  (or  the  children  of  Israel  his 


companion*  :  then  takt  another  '  '  > 

Ephrairn,  and  all  the  bouse  of  fsrael   his  companions  ;  and  join  them  one  to 
ick  ;  and  they   shall  become   one  in   thine    hand."     Now,  \ 
does  all  this  joining  of  her  mean,  if  it  ■■'. 

a^  Language  oan  13th. 

and  141  rokeo  or  di  et  to 

the  breach,  to  join  the  stick!  ti   ch.  of  . 

and  learn  how  this  Btick  was    'cut  apart."     lie  not. 

It  was  no  part  of  his  business  to   do  bo.    He  was  red  to  unit*  them; 

which  to  explain  to  rerse  :  "Thus  saith  the  3 

God;  Behold,   I  will  ;  .ho-.e  house,]   from  am 

the  heathen,  ...  and  will  mall  u  the  laud  upon  the  mountains 

of  Israel  ;  and  g  shall  he  king  to  thera  all :  and  they  shall  be  no  mo: 

nations,  neither  shall  they  be  divided  into  two  kingdoms  any  more  at  all.  ...  I 
will  nave  them  out  of  all  their  dwelling-places,  Wherein  fhey  have  tinned,  and 
will  ol«  thall  they   be  :  and  1  will  be  their  God.     And 

David  my  servan  ;  they  all  shall  have  one  shep- 

herd: they  shall  also  walk  in  my  judgments,  and  observe  my  statutes,  and  do 
them.    And  they  shall  dwell  in  l  [have  given   unto  Jacob  my  sef- 

sajjt,  wherein  your  fathers  have  dwelt ;  and  they  shall  dwell  therein,  even  they. 
and  their  children,  and  theii  i  children  for  ever:  aud  my  servant  David 

shall  be  their  prince  forever.  Moreover,  I  will  make  a  covenant  of  peace  with 
them  :  it  shall  be  an  [  :  covenant   with   them  >  and   I  will  place  them, 

and  multiply  them,  and  will  set  my  sanctuary  in  the  midst  of  them  for  evermore. 
My  tabernac  yea,  I  will  be  their  God,  and   they  shall  bo 

my  people.  And  the  heathen  shall  know  that  I  the  Lord  do  sanctify  Israel,  when 
my  sanctuary  shall  he  in  the  midst  of  V*  ire."    This  promise  remains  to 

be  fulfilled;  but  the  beginning  of  its  fulfillment — the  joiniii 
union  of  the  North  with  the  South — is  close  at  hand.  It  cannot  be  claimed  that 
this  refers  to  a  restoration  in  the  Holy  Land,  or  Palestine,  because  of  the  ex- 
pressions •■  liters  dwelt,  &c.;  for  if  such  expres- 
sions are  not  figures,  neither  is,  '-David  my  servant"  a  figure,  but  real,  which 
would  necessitate  the  resurn  ion  to  life  of  King  David,  who  has  been  dead 
over  two  thousand  years.  Such  conclusion  would  be  ih-i  heighth  of  absurdity. 
The  old  land,  names,  kings,  &c.,  are  taken  to  type  or  represent  the  new.  The 
nation  here  restored  is  Israel,  under  Judah,  and  the  names  of  her  ancient  fathers, 

and  country  are  hers  nce\  and  who   has  any  right  to  complain  \ 

besides,  God  said  to  D  ppoint   another  land,  and  plant  them 

in  it.  Second  Samuel,  vii  ch.,  God  says  to  David,  10  v.:  -Moreover  I  will  ap- 
point a  place  lor  my  people  Israel,  and  will  plant  them,  that  they  may  d. 
a  place  of  their  own.  and  move  no  move  ;  neither  shall  the  children  of  wicked- 
ness afflict  them  any  m  If  stronger  proof  of  a  new  national 
I  iul.  and  a  new  planting  thereto  we  shall  not  be  able  to  give 
it,  and  shall  not  attempt  to  do  so;  but  while  upon  this  head  of  planting,  we  will 

)me  other  |  of  national  planting,   and  national  plants. 

iahxxiii,  6  v.   .-•,   :  "Behold,  the  days  come,  saith  the  Lord,  that   I  will 
raise  unto  David  a  righteous  Branch,    [nation]  a  [called  David,]  shall 

reign  and  prosDer,  and  shall  judgment   and  justice  in  the  earth.    In  his 

days  Judah  shall     .  >i  shall  dwell  safely. "    xxxiii  ch.  15  v..  ''In 

those  days,  and  at  that  time,  will  I  cause  the  Branch  of  righteousness  to  grow  np 
unto  David.  .  .  .  David  shall  never  want  a  man  to  sit  upon  the  throne  of  the 
house  of  Israel."  Zeohariah  lit  ch  .  8v.:  ''For  behold  I  will  bring  forth  my  ser- 
vant, the  Branch;  for  behold  the  stone  that  I  have  laid  before  Joshua,  upon  one 
stone  seven  eyes."  Here,  as  elsewhere,  the  "stone"  appears  as  a  nation  or 
branch  of  David;  and  on  this  occasion  it  has  seven  eyes.  Tho  Confederacy  being 
the  Branch — immediately  explained  to  be  a  stone,  and  said  to  have  seven  eyes, 
which  are  the  seven  States  in  its  first  organization — is  the  identical  stone  cut  out 
of  the  mo  untain  without  hands.  Isaiah,  lx  ch..  beginning  at  the  5th  ver 
life  size  picture  •  \  imaria  and  g 


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clo»es  thus:  "Thy  p?©ple  also  shall  be  all  righteous  :  they  shall  inherit  the  land 
forever,  the  braach  of  my  plauting,  the  work  of  my  hands,  that  I  may  be  glori- 
fied. A  l:ttle  one  shall  become  a  thousand,  and  a  small  one  a  strong  nation." 
Here  you  s.je  it  is  a  nation  again.  In  the  xvii  ch.  of  Ezekiel  a  parable,  which 
is  further  called  a  riddle,  was  put  to  the  house  of  Israel,  saying:  "A  great  eagle 
with  great  wings,  long  winged,  full  of  feathers,  which  had  divers  colours,  came 
onto  Lebanon,  and  took  the  highest  branch  of  the  cedar,"  and  planted,  &c;  ex- 
plained in  the  12th,  13th,  aud  14th  verses  to  be  the  taking  of  the  king  and  peo- 
ple of  Jerusalem  captive,  by  the  king  of  Babylon,  who  planted  them  in  his  own 
land  ;  and  also  planting  a  subject  kingdom  at  Jerusalem.  When  done  with  this 
planting  of  the  king  of  Babylon,  God  says,  22ud  verse:  "I  will  also  take  of  the 
highest  branch  of  the  high  cedar,  and  will  set  it;  I  will  crop  off  from  the  top  of 
mug  twigs  a  tender  one,  and  will  plant  it  upon  an  high  mountain  and  emi- 
n ■■•:; •■:  in  the  mountain  of  the  height  of  Israel  will  I  plant  it ;  and  it  shall  bring 
forth  boughs,  and  bear  fruit,  and  be  a  goodly  cedar:  and  under  it  shall  dwell  all 
fowl  of  every  wing;  in  the  shadow  of  the  branches  thereof  shall  they  dwell." 
Here  God  says  be  would  do  what  the  king  of  Babylon  had  done;  and  Isaiah,  as 
ju^t  quoted  above,  shows  that  God  had  done  it.  The  "little  plant  was  to  become 
a  thousand;"  the  small  one  a  "strong  nation."  Now,  when,  and  where  did  these 
two  plantings  take  place  ?  The  first  "I  will  also  take  of  the  highest  branch  of  the 
high  cedar,  aud  will  set  it,"  occurred  in  1776,  and  corresponds  with  the  man 
child  of  Revelation,  that  was  to  rule  all  nations  with  a  rod  of  iron;  so  its  locality 
its  know*3  hereby,  as  well  as -from  the  date.  The  second  planting  :il  will  crop  oif 
from  [as  the  stone  was  cut  out  of  the  mountain,]  the  top  of  his  young  twigs  a 
tender  one.  and  will  plant  it."  This  second  slip  for  planting  was  taken  off  from 
the  Jlrst.  and  was  young  and  tender.  Young  and  tender  imply  feebleness;  want- 
ing in  physical  powers;  cut  from  the  lender  growing  top,  and  not  from  near  the 
root  of  power.  It  had  no  root  attached  at  planting.  This  fits  to  a  scribe;  touch- 
es everywhere.  The  seven  seceding  States  sat,  over  two  thousand  years  ago,  for 
this  faithful  likeness.  Next  the  place  of  planting  :  "Upon  a  high  mountain,  and 
eminent  in  the  mountain  of  the  height  of  Israel,  will  I  plant  it."  As  the  whole 
planting  affair,  from  the  king  of  Babylon  on  to  this  last  and  final  one,  was  nation- 
al; and  as  a  mountain  is  a  very  common  symbol  of  a  nation;  and  as  a  nation 
could  not  be  planted  upon  an  isolated  pile  of  earth,  it  follows  that  this  planting 
of  a  nation  was  "upon"  a  nation,  or  in  a  nation.  Now,  if  the  C.  S.  have  not  been 
planted  in  the  United  States,  I  am  not  able  to  give  her  geographical  position  : 
and  if,  after  all  our  labor,  we  cannot  locate  her,  our  toiling  has  been  in  vain.  It 
was  only  severed  from  the  parent  stock,  and  took  root  where  it  was,  just  as  the 
stone  was  severed  by  incision  from  the  mountain;  the  knife  of  secession  simply 
passed  between  the  parent  stock  and  the  tender  one,  leaving  it,  as  to  local  posi- 
tion, untouched,  and  having  and  retaining  its  vitality  in  a  genial  clime  and  fa- 
vorable soil,  it  could  not  fail  to  take  root,  as  it  did  in  organization,  at  Montgom- 
ery, Ala.;  and  then  to  grow,  and  shall  continue  to  do  so.  unfil  "It  shall  bring 
forth  boughs,  and  bear  fruit,  and  be  a  goodly  cedar;  and  under  it  shall  dwell  all 
fowl  of  every  wing;  in  the  shadow  of  the  branches  thereof  shall  they  dwell." 
"And  all  the  trees  of  the  field  [all  the  nations  of  the  earth]  shall  knosr  that  I  the 
Lord  have  brought  down  the  high  tree,  [U.  S.]  have  exalted  the  low  tree  [C.  S.] 
have  dried  up  the  green  tree.  [U.  S.]  and  have  made  the  dry  tree  [C.  S.]  to  flour 
ish."  .  We  might  continue  similar  quotations  and  remarks  ;  but  our  time  and 
space  forbids.  We  will  now  call  attention  to  what  followed  immediately  upon 
thv*  "joining  of  the  sticks,"  the  "flowing  together"  of  those  that  had  been  apart; 
of  the  "mending  of  the  breach,"  &c,  by  which  joining,  healing,  flowing  together, 
the  divided  nation  became  one,  "never  more  to  be  di  vided  into  two  kingdoms," 
but  to  remain  "one  nation  in  the  land  upon  the  mountains  of  Israel."  What  fol- 
lowed this  re-union?  Answer:  The  "destruction  of  the  Egyptian  sea,"  or  mon- 
archy, called  again  a  river  of  -'seven  streams,"  Isaiah  xi  ch:  15th  and  16th  v.  In 
the  xxxvii  ch.  of  Ezekiel,  as  we  have  quoted,  this  union  of  the  nation  took  placp. 
It  is  immediately  followed,  in  the  xxxviii  and  xxxix  ch..  with  the  total  and  final 
trertltrow  of  monarchy. by  the  hand*  of  the  nation  *o  restored  upon  the  moan- 


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t«im  of  larftd;  and  a*   this    il  "  '  .      -•  ",    t%\\ 

attention  to  the  taot  that  monarchy  isi  sby  seven  d  - 

derated  or  banded   together  for  our  overthrow.    See  2.  3,  5,  and  6  \ 
38  ch.  Ezekiel.  There  "Gogia  the  chief  priest  ofMeahech  and  Tubal;  and  wit\ 

reatriverof  mon 
is  called  Gog,  and  his  seven  str<  '  ito  him  are  fonnd   In 

nations  here  named  as  j  >i  led  with  him  in  I  e,  on  thei 

bnt  most  gloriously  su  m  our  part.    U  iah  had  said  that  this  ri 

be  "smitten  in  i  tie  did  not  particularize  or 

tell  us  how:  bat  Eeek  two  chap 

as  referred  lo  above;  we  h  1 1  .  *e  to  copy-.    We  have,  i n  th 

that.  Zechariah,  in  his  xi  i  and  Judah 

t<<  b  became  two  nations.    It  isi  by  all 

that  this  c  .;n)y  tells  us  of  the  division  of  the  I'raelitish  p 

into  two  separate  kingdoms;  but  when  or  how,   the  rr: 

nine.    Bishop  Newcoin  says  he  could  not  explain  the  passage  in  reference 
to  said  division,  without  su  he   united  nation  to  exist  at  the  time  th* 

Prophet  wrot >  this  prophet  d    knew  was  not  the  fact:  for  it 

poken  many  ge  .  Joseph,  or    the  ten  trib 

broken  off  from  the  house  of  Ju  I  ipoken,  in  fact,  w  I  was  in  the 

act  of  returning  from  her  captivity.  and  was  actually  then  re-building  Jer: 
and  the  temple.    The  learned  commentator  Mr.  Joseph  Meal,  says:  "Methinks 
such  a  pro]  lable  for  Zeehariah'fl  time,  when  the  city  yet,  for 

a  great  part,  lay  in  her  ruins,  and  the  temple    had  not  yet  recovered 
wa<*  it  agreeable  to  the  scope  of  Zechariah 's  commission;  who,  together  with  his 
colleague,  Haggai,  was  to  enc  rarage  the  people,  lately  relumed  from  captivity,  to 
build  their  temple  and  to  reorganize  their  commonwealth."    So  you  will  - 
most  profoundly  learned  were  left  in  the  dark  a--  to  the  proper  understanding  of 
this  prophecy.     Upon  a  similar  prophecy, d  .  Dr.  Clarks 

says,  in  substance  :  "This  prophecy  was  spoken  by  ■<•-..',,<.  who 

:'.■'  ten  tribes  broke  off  from  the  house  of  Judah  ;  for  it  has  reference  U 
that  event,  and  co  Ud  not  b      .  i   by  the  prophet  in  whose  book  it  is 

here  recorded,  for  he  lived  And  wrote  long  after  that  event;  and  in  compiling  or 

ig  up  this  latter  prop]  lf  this  prophecy  of  some  unknown  prophet,  by 

mistake  got  into  the  wrong  book."    Is  not  this  a  atrange  way  of  getting  clear  of 
a  difficulty,  not :  j  time  not  having  cow.''    The  fact  is.  this  proph- 

ecy hasdii  i  the  "latter  day 

Israel."  and  could  not  have  been   understood  until  the  present  time;  but  its  time 
,  of  r<  vealment  having  re  is  now  no  difficulty  in  th 

unlearned     We  v,  as  it  stands  in  the  \i  ch.  of  Zechariah,  totally 

wanting  in  chronology,   or  order  of  time  as   to  the  things  or   events  spoken  of. 
This,  however,  i  >ecurrence,  lifficnlty.     We  will 

ivor  to  give  it  chronologically;  give  it  in  the  order  in  which  the  events  or  ac- 
tions severally  occur.    Th  •  tion  is  treated  as  a  "  nock/'  and  a  p 
them  axe  called  "the  flock  appointed  to  death,  the  a 
by  tfa                   who  are  ca  "who  slay  them.''    This  flock  of 
slau                            i  -poor  of  the  flock;'*  that  is,  the  weak  or  more  defen 
(humanly  speaking.)  of    the  whole  flock  or  .. v  understand  to  have  refer- 
itb,as  a  whole,  and  to  all.  North  and  South,  individually,  who  are 
with  1                in  sen  time  n                     by,  a    l     -  such,  lemselves  to 
the  wrath  of  the  North.                     if  slaughter  claims  our  Grot  attention. 

:  "Tims  saith  the  Lord  my  (rod:  Fred  [or  sustain]  the  flock  of  the  slaughter; 
who-  -th]   slav   them,  and  fold  themselves  not  guilty:  and 

they  [the  North]  that  sell  them  sav,  Bleesed  be  the  Lord;  for  I  am  rich."    How 
true,  all  k  low  that  will  reflect  for  but  a  moment.    Tl  .as  indeed  grown 

rich. 

ask;''  iterally  Men  her  possesion  ; 

fihe  was  literally  slaying  us,  and  had   well  nigh   accompli 
wc  wei-B  aroused  to  a  tense  of  oar  danger: 


jrs^'Blessed  be  the  .  hereby,  that  under  God's 

authority  they  havd*done  this  wickedn  ;  all  know  they  do  to  this  day,  by 

their  thanksgivings  far  any  seeming  success  <  "he  poor  flock  being  thus 

provided  for,  God  says:  ;'l  will  no  more  pity  tanta  of  the  land,  [that,  is; 

the  North)}  but,  lo,  I  will  deliver  the  men  everyone  into  his  neighbor's  hand, 
and  into  the  hand  of  his  king  :  [that  is,  into  the  hands  of  the  South,]  and  they 
[the  South,]  shall  smite  the  land  out  of  their  [the  North's]  hand  and  I  will  no*t 
deliver  them,  [the  North.]  And  I  will  feed  the  flock  cf  slaughter,  even  you,  O 
poor  of  the  [original]  flock;''  thus  re-assuring  us  of  his  guardian  care  and  pro- 
tection. Thus  prefacing  what  he  designed  doing,  he  then,  preparatory  to  the 
action,  takes   tw  or  sticks,   one  called  Beauty,  and  the   other  called 

Bands.  Beauty  represented  God's  covenant  with  the  whole  house  of  Israel;  and 
now.  as  he  designed  to  break  the  brotherhood,  it  was  very  proper  that  he  should 
lissolve  the  covenant  between  himself  and  them.  So  he  says,  verse  10  : 
I  took  my  staff,  Beauty,  and  cut  it  asunder,  that  I  might  break  my  cove- 
nant, which  I  had  made  with  all  the  people.  And  it  was  broken  in  that  day  : 
and  so  the  poor  of  the  flock  [South]  that  waited  upon  me  knew  that  it  was  the 
word  [a>r  will]  of  the  Lord,"  that  it  should  be  so;  and  so  we  do  consider  and  re- 
ceive it.  Now  that  the  covenant  between  God  and  the  whole  nation,  or  Israel 
as  one,  is  broken  or  cut  asunder.  ly  for  cutting  the  band  between  the 

brotherhood,  which  follows  at  once,  but  could  not  have  gone  before.    The  broth- 
erhood could  not  have  been  disabled  so  long   as  God's  covenant  remained  with 
the  whole  house.    14th   verse:  "Then   I   cut  asunder  mine   other  staff,  Bands, 
that  I  might  break  the  brotherhood  between  Judah  and  Israel,  [Joseph.]     Thus; 
the  North  and  South  were   separated;  and   in  immediate   connection   with  this 
breaking  of  the  brotherhood,  is  announced  the  raising    up  of  a  foolish  Shepherd 
or  ruler  in  the  land  of  the   North,   (that  land  that  was  before  said  should  be 
smitten  out  of  the  hands  of  those  that  then  held  possession  or  rule,)  which  fool- 
ish Shepherd,  it  is  said  "Shall  not  visit  those  that   be  cut  off,  neither  shall  seek 
the  y®ung  one,  nor  heal  that  that  is  broken,  nor  feed  that  that  standeth  still  : 
but  he  [the  Shepherd]  shall  eat  the  flesh  of  the  fat  and  tear  their  claws  in  pieces" 
Abe  Lincoln  sat  for  this  faithful  likeness   many  generations  ago.    He  did  not 
visit  or  seek  the  young  cedar  of  Lebanon   that  h*ad  been  cut  off  by  the  knife  of 
secession,  in  a  spirit  calculated  to  bring  them  back  and  heal  the  breach  in  the 
brotherhood.    So  far  was  he  from  "healing  that  that   was  broken,"  that  he  did 
not  so  much  as  feed,  strengthen,  or  encourage  those  that   had  as  yet  stood  Still 
in  the  matter,  to  hope  for  better  things  at  the  shepherd's  hands.    "Hope  deferred 
maketh  the  heart  sick  or  faint;"  they  could  stand   still  no  longer;  he  forced  the 
fatal  knife  to  descend  again  and  again,  until  Virginia,  North  Corolina,  Tennessee, 
Kentucky,  Missouri  and  Arkansas,  are  all  found  in  motion.     What  is  further  saM 
of  this  foolish  Shepherd  ?  why,  that,  instead   of  feeding  and  giving   of  strength 
and  hope  forfcthe  cut  off  and  the  standing  still.    "He  shall  eat  tlie  flesh  of  tho 
fat  and  tear  their  claws   [or  means  of  defence]   in  pieces."    What  is  promised 
him  for  this?    "Woe  to  the  idle  Shepherd   that  leaveth   the  flock!  the  sword 
shall  be  upon  his  arm,  and  upon  his  right  eye  :  his  arm  shall  be  clean  dried  up, 
and  his  right  eye   shall    be  utterly  darkened."     Woe,  to  old  Abe  !    Chronologi- 
cally, the   three  first  verses  cover  the  same  actions  as  the  cutting  of  the  staff 
called  Bands,  which  was  the  breaking  of  the  brotherhood  of  Judah  and  Joseph. 
The  nation  is  addressed  as  "Lebanon/'  and  ordered  to  throw  open  her  doors,  that 
the  fire  might  enter,  and  devour  the  cedars  of  Lebanon.    So  if  Lebanon  represents 
the  Nation,  the  cedars  must  represent  the  States.     "Open  thy  doors,  O  Lei 
[U.  S.]  that  the  fire  [political  burning,]  may  devour  thy  cedars,  [States.]     Howl, 
fir  tree;  [less  excellent  nation's,]  for  the  cedar  [the  most  excellent  tree  or  U.  S.]  is 
fallen  ;  because  the  mighty  are  spoiled  :  howl,  O  ye  oaks  of  Bashan  ;  [less  excel- 
lent nations.]  for  the  forest  of  the  vintage  [U.  S.]  is  come  down.    There  is  a  voice 
of  the  howling  of  the  shepherds  ;  [Governors  of  the  Northern  States,]   1    . 
glory  [the  Union,]  is  spoiled  :  a  voice  o'f  the  roaring*  of  young  lion,s;  [chief  per 
be  pride  of  Jordan  [the  Union,]  is  spoiled."     The  next  thing  that  clai 
•  as  well  a«t  ord  ■  £- 


.  I  red  the  Hock.'"  thai  ia  ibe  "flock  of  slaughter."  or   poor  flock:  which  we 
Hn.y  a  r  rganio  form  :  before  tins  Urn  .-.  we  spoke  of  them 

*.*  Che  bhorring  ia 

i !  DODO 

other  than  I  ijuently  God  cuts  off  spherda  from  his 

will  not  fend  you  :  that  that  dieth  let  it  di*  ;  and  that 
>t  it  be  cut  otf;;:  no  use   in  delaying  the  matter,  as  there 
ent  Off  "in  one  month."     These  three 
sa,  belonging,  at  the  time,  to  the  Confeder- 
acy: ee,  Kentucky,  and  Missouri.     We  have  thus  no- 

Licable  strictly  to  the  present  state  of  things  in 
prior  time.    It  tells  of  eeceaalon  and  the  Confed- 
w'o  will  cite  one  mo  i  to  prove  that  Israel. 

day.  won'.  •.     In  the   xiiich.ofl 

■  cient  and  unrelenting  foe  of  Gtod'  1  Israel,  w 

I    burden  or  CUrae  pronounced  against  her,   and  her  total 

promises  to  bis  own  people  of  deliverance  from  their 

or  the  Lord  will  have  mercy  on  Jacob,  and  will  yet 

v  Israel,  and  set  them  in  their  own  land  :  and  the  strangers  [negro?.?]  shall 

ined  with  them,  and  they  [the  negroes.]  shall  cleave  I  >  of  Jacob* 

And  the  people  shall  take  them,  and  bring  them  to  their  place  :  [the  place  that 

Gcd  said  to   David  he  would  appoint  and   plant  his  people  in    it,  and  that  they 

should  no  more  r:  move  or.be  afflicted  as  aforetime.]  and  the  house  of  Israel  shall 

3  them  in  the  land  of  the  Lord  for  nrvanla  naids :  and  they  shall 

captivea,  whose  eaptives  they  were;  and  they  fchall  rule  over  tholr 

3cendant§  of  Ham  are  here  had  reference  to, 

who  had  e  -elites  for  so  long  a  period,  while  in  Egypt  ;  but  now 

are  to  be  turned,  and  the  former  mastera  to  become  the  Blavea,  and  the 

•'And  it  shall  come  to  pass  in  4he  day  that 

the  Lord  shall  give  thee  reet  from  thjf  nd  from  thy   fear,  and  from  t/io 

bard  bondage  wherein  thou  wast  made  to  .serve,  [in  Babylon,]  that  thou  ihalfc 

■■able  against  the  kinc:  of  Babylon,  and  say,  How  hath  the  opprea- 

golden  city  <  •  Lord  hath  broken  the  staff  of  the  wicked.and 

■e  of  the  rulers/'  This  parable  of  rejoicing,on  the  part  of  Israel,ow 

len  Babylon,i6kcpt  up,  to  the  2't  sluaive;  butthe  Prophet,  In  the  29th v. 

i  not  to  rejoice,  as  a  whole,  because  the  rod  of  Babylon  Si 
for  there  wa3  in  store  :  \        ng  evila     "Rejoice  not  thou',  whole  Pa 

•  rod  of  him  that  antote   thee,is  broken:  •  ':•  root 

■  U  he  a  fury  flying  str- 
pent  Babylon,  that  spawn  of  the  devil.  Monarchy,  properly 
called  a  serpent  after  its  sire,  is  not  dead  yet ;  has  vitality  in  her  very  roota*     We 
rejoiced  at  our  deliverance  from  her  a  little,  just  a  little,  too  soon.    The  revolu- 
•   us  rest,  and  scorning  security,  for  a  time  ;   and  we,   naturally 
n  joiced  and  took  up  a  parable  against  monarchy  in  general,  and  taunt- 
m  on  every  suitable  occasion.    But  in  the  mean  time   her  roots  were  ger- 
minating secretly,  and  out  of  tight,  that  serpent  of  eerpentg,  that  cock- 
atrice and  bane  of  States-rights,  confederate  republic? — called  "centruixnx,"  tend- 
ing directly  to  the  one  man  potear  principle,  in  opposition  to  God,  who  alone  is 
onein  power.    "Centralism"  doea  not  make  an  open  and  direct  attack,  but  give* 
birth  to  a-                                  dch,  for  want  of  a  better  name,  we  will  call  "Abo- 
litionUm."                 wn  of  Centralism  came  acrosa  tho  waters  in  the  guiae  of  a 
messenger  of  Christ,  and  at  once   entered  and  desecrated  the  sacred  desk;  and 
thus,  unsuspectingly,  got  at  the  people,  and  won  upon  them,  as  a  wolf  in  afceep'a 
clothing  would,   naturally,  upon   the  sheep.    And  th<                headed    by  their 
•Shepherds,  soon  set  up  a  bleating  to  Congrefu:  but  In  their  sail  bleating*,  they 
lot  one  word  in  oppo                                     "  nor  ene  word  in  favor  of  Cen- 
m.     No  I  not  they.     Their  calliog  and  mission  was  a  higher  oce.     They  did 
not  wish  or  care  to  "daoWe"  in  politic!    Let  the  nation  take  care  of  itself,  and 
tfieyVould  tsko  care  of  the  souls.    But  as  soon  aa  they  acquiru  a  little  atrengtb, 


* 


in<\  organize,  they  become  holder,  and  begin  to  clamor  most  ▼ooiferottsly,  luit 
not  against  Slate  Sovereignty  ;  that  must  be  kept  in  the  back  ground  until 
strength  to  strike  boldly,  and  confident  of  certain  success,  is  obtained.  The  se- 
quel I  need  Dot  write  ;  it  is  already  written  on  the  broad  face  of  our  whole  land, 
in  tire  and  blood.  The  sequel,  a«  given  by  inspiration,  we  will  copy,  and  make  a 
few  remarks  thereon.  Jn  the  30  th  verse  the  Prophet  gives  assurance  that  pros- 
perity should  be  to  the  rejoicing  nation  for  a  time  :  that  "the  firstborn  of  the  poor 
pbftll  feed,  and  the  needy  shall  He  down  in  safety;"  but,  after  a  time,  "he  shall 
kill  thy  root  with  famine,  and  slay  thy  remnant."  This  killing  of  the  root  may 
have  reference  to  the  killing  of  the  two  witnesses,  before  noticed,  and  tne  slay- 
ing of  the  "remnant,"  to  the  "remnant"  that  was  affrighted,  and  1;  reby  was 
induced  to  "give  glory  to  the  God  of  heaven."  Now,  what  follows  this  admoni- 
tion not  to  rejoigfe?  this  assurance  of  evil  ?  this  assurance  of  good  to  some  extent ' 
amidst  the  evil?  It  is  this  :  the  dissolution  of  the  whole  nation.  "Howl,  O  gate; 
cry,  0  city;  [city  of  Sodom,]  thou  whole  Palestina,  art  dissolved:  for  tbe^p  shall 
come  from  the  North  a  srhpke,  and  none  shall  be  alone  in  his  appointed  tim 
None  to  escape  the  effects  of  this  Northern  smoke  ;  none  free  from  itsdissol! 
nature.  This  "fiery  flying  serpent,'''  like  subtle  smoke,  enters  into  all  departments 
'of  the  nation,  and  the  consequence  is  a  disruption  of  Palestina,  or  the  government 
•f  the  laud  of  Palestine.  Thus,  again,  by  inspiration,  is  shown,  by  different  fig 
urea  or  symbols,  the  same  things  before  noticed;  and  they  might  be  multiplied 
from  tho  sam?  source  ;  but  we  close  for  the  present ;  ready,  however,  to  answer, 
as  ab»v«.  if  called  ou. 


CHAPTER    TENTH 


npSE  IiraeUtish  nations,  sg  type  and  anti-type,  correspond  with  the  double 
JL  triune  form  of  the  Godhead  that  produced  them.  Witness:  The  first  plural 
form.of  God  in  attributes,  of  Omnipotence,  Omniscience  and  Omnipresence,  was 
not  so  clear  and  tangible,  not  so  real  or  realizing,  to  our  human  apprehensions  as 
•was  the  second  form,  expressed  by  Father..  Son  and  Holy  Spirit ;  so  the  first,  or 
typical  form  of  these  governments,  has  not  been  so  realizing  as  is  to  be  their 
rrtoad.  And  again,  as  a  full  realization  of  the  Godhead,  as  taught  us  in  tho 
Bible,  is  not  possible,  until  we  pass  up  to  him  by  the  six  steps  of  ascent  to  the 
ffcventh.  which  alone  of  the  whole  is  God,  so  we" need  not  expect  full  realization 
nationally,  until  w%  arrive  at  or  to  the  seventh  and  last  head  of  God's  ancient 
government  on  earth.  This  fact  is  farther  proven  by  the  six  steps  of  ascent  to. 
king  Solomon's  splendid  throne,  each  one  of  which  was  guaided  by  a  brace  of 
lions;  thus  signifying  that  the  nation  in  all  its  travail  and  labor,  up  to  its  final 
bead,  was  guarded  by  Christ  the  lion.  This  throne  figured  or  typed  the  nation 
in  all  its  steps  and  final  "  throne  dominion,"  which  was  not  a  step,  but  a  seat. 
The  steps  were  laborious,but  rising  higher  as  step  by  step  the  kingdom  advanced, 
nearjmg  realization,  or  seventh,  which  was  not  a  step,  but  a  seat;  which  all  will 
r.ee  at  once  signified  rest,  no  more  steps  of  travail;  "Dominion"  has  been  obtained; 
the  seat  has  been  taken  by  David's  regal  sou,  who  will  sit  and  rule  forever.  To 
this  also  agrees  the  six  labor  days  of  creation,  ending  in  tne  seventh  one  of  rest ; 
for  in  six  days  were  all  things  created,  "and  on  the  seventh  God  aided  his  work." 
Labor  was  an  attitude  or  condition  of  unrest;  standing  and  walking  are  common 
ones..  Six  days  entire  had  been  occupied  in  the  work:  the  seventh  finds  the  la- 
borer in-his  attitude  of  labor — standing  for  instance.  A  degree  of  labor  therefore 
is  requisite  on  the  seventh,  to  effect  a  change  from  standing  to  sitting,  or  one  of 
rest;  hence  it  is  said  "he  finished"  on  the  seventh.  Again,  upon  this  head:  The 
Israelites  were  required  to  till  their  lands  six  years,  and  the  seventh  it  was  to 
'Tost  We  return,  and  note:  That  as  the  attributes  of  God  are  made  up  of  various 
or  lineaments;  as  tv?  have  elsewhere  remarked,  so,  likewise,  these  govern - 
meets  arc  made  up  of  the  various   State  governments,  which  may  bo  muitipiiAl 


Like  tbrir  irrwit  original,  (God)  they  kliall  become  universal,  ai  promised 
■•oft.  A  marked  example  or  two  of  multiplication  was  given  us.  by  God,  in  the 
dividing  the  tribe  of  Joseph  Intd  two.  Ephraim  and  M  b  t  df- 

nh  into  two.    Thus  was  the  add  sraey 

taught,  and  the  United  Statcs^d  not  fail  to  profit  by  the    !  ;       i  tbe 

resul  [ years  tMfeates  grew  in  number  from  13  to  33.    [tin a 

that  visible  things  I  ITu- 

,  we  would  understand  and  the  invisible, 

(rOd.V 

St.  Paul,  speaking  of  heath  birds,  and 

creeping  thi  rs  ttiey  were  given  op  of  God  ton     I       iess,b<         •  it  was 

not  an  ignorance'of  necessity  that  caused  them  to  do  e  di    t  the 

it  that  which  may  be  tenon  •  [t1l(i 

unto  them  "    How  has  he  d  :  "jPot 

n  isible  things  of  God  ever  si  worM  [which  is  i  isible,]  "re 

'  seen,  [not  dimly,]  fc  ■  ■'  &&- 

'"'  are  made  plain  bytfu 
idol  wi  nl  excuse,"  notwithstanding  they  had  oof 

word.    "Prom"  the  date  of  creation  all  has  been  plain,  if  nun  would  have  given 
I  to  the  voice  of  creation,   with  the  Spirits  aid,  whicn   "enl  every 

man  that  comctb  into  the  world.'"    Creation—  physical,  intellectual, an    • 

bat  the  retkx  of  the  mind  of  Cod.  and  must  be  like  him.  Creation  pre-< 
in  the  mind  of  God.  just  as  the  finished  painting  reflects  bat  the  pre-existing 
and  colors  of  the  artist's  mind:  he  by  action  simply  brings  them  cut  and  tra 
them  to  canvass.    We  hesitate  not  to 

and  intellectaally,  in  families  and  innati 
;  •'in  nations"  in  Abraham's  house.    All  the  fan 
-;,!'-«.t'  Noah,  and  they  are  but  one  family.    All    the  •<  earth 

belong,  by  promise,  to  the  three  nations  of  the  fathers,  and  they  are  te  be 
one  nation,  and  to  "fill  the  whole  earth."     All  others  are  to  "bee  aft'  of 

ammer  threshing  Moor;"  ''driven    away,  and  place  for  Ihem  no  more  to  be 
as  that  this  globe,  so  far  a- known,  ig 
or  ennuis  of  three  distinct  formations,  termt  .1  by  the  book--  Prin 
and  Tertiary,  or  1st,  2nd,  and  3rd;  and  thai 

periods  of  time.    So  the  ea  iture  \ 

and  from  this  we  conclude  that  a  government  springing  ft    i   the  same  infinite 

;<>rm  and  feature,  should  also  bear  the  marl  '•    If 

•  tbe  old  United  States'  Constitution,  as  w 

*ame  triune  feature  kept  up,  even  in  their  working  u  and 

$  are  like  the  Athenians,  who  ignorant  •■  rod,  to 

them  unknown, according  to  the  inscription  on  an  altar  of  theirs.    \\ 

Rerving  God,  nationally,  though  imperfectly  it  enti- 

tled to  □  )  credit.    "To  God  be  all  the  glory  !"  who,  >•  >f  his  Holy 

Spirit,  directed  and.  guided  the  fathers  of  '76  in  organizing  a  scriptural  or  God 
like  government.    The  same  feature  ifl  repeated  in  all  Governments. 

imeats  that  do  not.  conform  to  this  physical  delineatic  'nave 

not  God  for  their  author,   and  arc  Counterfeits  or  corrupt,  and  a  pring 

of  fallen  man,  and  are.  as  he  is.  averse  to  God  ;  and  so.  necessarily,  ' 

This  rale  is  changeless.    All  governments  I  the  centralizing  ele- 

ment in  them;  that  tend  to  consolidation;  that  in   anyway   favors  the  one  man 
.  places  man  as  nr.c  in'th^  place  of  God.  who  alone  i=  one  in  power; 
and  ;•.  •  at  war  with  the  Paternal  and  his   governments   on   earth,   and 

would.  If  possible,  dethroae  the  Deity  in  heaven.    Nimrod  (descended  rrom  that, 
branch  of  Noah's  family  doomed  to  servitude,  and  denied  national  rule,  because 

•  rrorelinLr.  Bensual  disposition,)  was  the  author,  as  tar  as  we  are  informed. 
of  this  one  man  power  principle  in  governments,  and  established  ot  ord  sred  the 
kinc/dom  of  Babel,  which  resi.-t-.  .  an  i  settle  wid* 

•  .',  and   was  alone    compelled  in  disperse  by    the  conft  r  lan- 

tmcntSj  from  thai  day  to  this,   thai  resist   or  in 


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fter  binders  free  and   wide   spread  settlement  or  dispersion,  has  bad,  and  ev 
ivill.  a  tendency  to  centralization,  and  are  of  their  mother,  Babel,  above  name*!, 
nnd  opposed  to  God;  and  as  such,  must  and  will  fail.     Babel  is  the  mother  of  all 
Monarchy.    Some  governments  that  have,   or  do  now  exist,  may  ia  som'3  instan- 
cies rejexn'ole  the  governments  that  we  claim  ar&^t*G>d,  especially  as  to  the  h<*g- 
i*lative.  Judicial  and  Executive  features  naraedWbove:  and  so  we  might  expect; 
for  when  there  in  a  spurious  or  counterfeit  thing,   it  must  be   supposed   to  Is 
made  in  imitation  of  the  pure,  bat  it  is  only  an  imitation,  and  m$y  pass  as  genu- 
ine for  a  time;  but,  when  put  in  the  crucible  of  God,  then  their  drossy  baseness 
will  appear,  and  be   rejected,  and  once  rejected,  will  pass  no  more  as  genuine. 
All  powers,  nationally  speaking,  are  in  the  hands  of  the  people,  in  their  Indi 
nal  capacity,  aggregated,  delegated  to  them  by  God  ;  and  being  God's  delegates, 
they  are  amenable  to  him  alone,  and  not  to  the.government  they  ^created,  as  his 
aetive  agents.    The   accountability  here  referred  to  is  political  ©r  national;  for 
individual  sins,  in  breaking  any  law  of  the  land,  does  not  involve  politics,  and 
for  such  sins  he  is  most  certainly  answerable;  the  one  to  the  whole,  who  is  sup- 
posed to  make  all  laws,  if  not  in  person,   by  representatives.    The  government 
being  the  creature  of  the  people,  in   their  aggregated  capacity,  cannon  hold  the 
people,  in    said  capacity,  to  account;  tiut,  as   the  agent  of  the  people,  its  duties 
are  to  carry  out  the   will  of  the  people  :  they   alone  hive  the  right  to  "a] 
change  or  abolish.''"  And  thus  following  out  this  self-evident  and  common  se; 
view  of  organic    governments,  under  one  general  or  confederate  head,  we  trace 
them  in  regular  succession  backward  or  up  tireain.  to  the  source  of  right  to  i 
From  the  one  government  confederate,  up  stream  to  the  State  governments,  and 
from  these  again  to  large   communities,  inorganic,,  and  these  to  neighborhood, 
and  neighborhoods  to  families,  and  families  to  individuals,  the  s ;.-,. 
make  up  this  great  governmental  river,  a   common  figure   in  scrip - 
meats.    The  springs  above  received  their  power   to  flow  into 
from  Heaven,  and  should,  as  the   rivers  to  the  ocean 
ceaseless  stream  of  gratitude  and  praise.    Or,  if  we 
at  the  springs,  (man  individually,)   who  receives 
their  erigin  and  constant  support,   we  trace  the; 
creeks  to  larger  ones,  and  these  in  turn  to   river- 
governments  organic  to  a  government  confederal 
urium,"  or  one  made  up  of  many.    This  is  in  sti 
nature,  visibly  manifested,  which  is  but  a  visible 
Witness,  the  great  otean,  above  referred  to,  in  its     • 
many,  when  individualized,  resembles  in  a  remarkable 
origin  of  all  things,  even  God  the  eternal.    Witness 
waters  as  one  sending  out  itself  in  vapors  to  the  visible  h     ■ 
as  clouds,  fall  in  teeming  showers  upon  the   thirsty       . 
countless  springs  appear;  (this   but  representing  the   ]  ■' 
in*o  branches,  creeks,  rivers,  and  rivers  into  a  river,  and  i 
utc  to  the  ocean  again.    So,  like  God,  it  is  the  "Alpha 
ning  and  the  ending,  the  first  and  the  last;"  confirmia 
had  mapped  himself  out  in  creation."     Who  ever  hear- 
up  stream,  dividing  and   subdividing  itself  until  it  end 
springs?    The  reverse  of  this  is  nature's  law  or  order. 
springs,  but  springs  make    rivers;  continents  do   not  i , 
grains  of  sand  make  continents.    The  whole  is  always  mad* 
the  parts  of  the  whole,  for  that  would  be  an  impossi'.  : 
houee  is  by  parts;  the  pencilings  of  the  artist,  that  ultimate  in 
is  so  likewise.    The  work  is  progressive;  and  so  the 
are  progressive  ;  not  to  say  the  same  of  God  himself,  to 
whose  existence  we  could  form  no  idea,  as  before 
ftand  or  starting  point,  and  w^th  the  assistance  of  the'sp 
so  to  speak, progtessivtly.    /gain:  the  governments  w  ■ 
their  lower  ends,  but  upon  the  opposite  ends    and  res  . 
cr  tejp  restiDs  or,  the  ground,    These  things  being  considered,  how  could  any  set- 


el  Intelligent  mjn  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  general   government  h\i 
ate  governments,   upon  which    It  id  built?    U.at  tla 
»in,  that  the  g  I  Ues  have  df 
id  not  rosume  at  pleasure  t    Del- 
but  lent;  not   a  i  gift  or  bestow  i 

1<  gated  to  be  ■. :  *d  ot  inr- 
.rating,  and  i.e.  'legate,  only  so  far 

iten      d  to   hifl  delegator. 

•  tuse  applicable  only  to  a 
portion  uf  tut-  eartb  to,  and  over  ha*  I 
and  dors  not  conform  to  the  physical  arrange 
of  na; 

does  v      •  i  m  the  least  m  that  all  governments  that 

Tin  to  the  physio*]  delineation  ul  God,  ai  I     and  :.a  sucli, 

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CHAPTER    ELEVENTH. 

AS-  the  lxvi  ch.  8v.  of  Isaifth,  s<  Zion  travai  brought 

forth  children;"-  and  as  said  prophecy  has,  we  believe,  almost  i  aire 

'.  and  not,  j  ■•    we  have  trea^J  i 

■  consider  ir  sucli.  and  not  at  all  spiritual;  and  further,  usofb-tcs  may  have 
•thus  baen  giver.  children  iu  spiritual  Zion,  we  deem  it  pro] 

id,  lor  be  it  known  once  for  ell  that  I  aiu 
in   the  fair  fabric  of  enr  spiritual  mot! 
hurch  is  a  bo+rou    '  .  one  of  ess-  iai    ->      .' 

the  ye  .  .  i  hildren  ol  Israel,  under  the  leadership  ef  Joshua. 

w  l&G  .  of  Canaan,   soon  drove    out.  killed,  or  subjugated  its 
heathen  iu.  -.  yt  by  careful  notice  it  will  be  observed  that  certain  j 

.  they  ii&nol  subdue,  for  500  years  after  they  entered  the  laud. 
1st  Chx       5les,  xi  ch:4  v\>*"And  David  aDd  all  israe: 
to  Jei  '- J&iut]   where   the   Jebusites   were   the    inhabitants  of  tile 

•habitants  of  Jebus  said  to   David,  Thou  shalt  not  co»e  hiiber. 
it        tie  [ot  fort,]  of  ;  ehisti 

■:  Jebusites  first  shall  t>e  chief  and  captain. 
a  I  first  up,  and  was  ohi<  I    And  David  dwelt  in  the 

led  it  the  city  ol  rouei.  Vth  eh:  Mb 

rent  to  Jerusalem  unt  •         fctabit- 

';  i  unto  David,  saying,  Thou  ahalt  not  come  in  hither: 
hither."    (For  they  1  igainst  the  whole 

»n strongly  fortified- )    '*Nei  I  :yid 

■      ■    . 
avid.    And  David   bui 
rongly  i  irtifj  ing  i  i  called  by  kbo 

le  we  hear  •  Now  say.  ye  tfa 

was  it  the  church  ?  will 

Israel- 
tmreh:  how  came  she  i<j  be 
I  that  dari^  altos  of  El 

-  ver  been  kept  in  the  tabernacle  or  tent;  th 

m  indering  from  Mount  Sinai,  i 
•  ;'  the  Philistines;  found 
thirteen  yes 
■  ■  down  to  tfa 

-     - 
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David  gathered  all'1  Israel  together  to  Jerusalem,  to  bring  up  the  Ark  of  tha  Lord! 
unto  bis  place,  which  he  had  prepared  for  it. . .  .  So  David  and  the  Elders  of  Israel. 
and  the  captains  over  thousands,  went  to  bring  up  the  Ark  of  the  Covenant  of  tha 
Lord  out  of  the  house  of  Obed-Edom  with  joy.  ...  So  they  brought  the  Ark  of 
God.  and  set  it  in  the  midst  of  the  tent  that  David  had  pitched  for  it"  in  the  city 
of  David:  thus  the  tabernacle  or  church  building,  so  to  speak,  was  set  up  in  a 
military  stronghold  of  the  name  of  '-Zion;"  and  here  the  nation  worshiped  the 
true  God  for  thirty-one  years,  in  the  midst  of  the  camp,  for  it  was  not  removed 
from  the  place  that  David  pitched  for  it  until  the  temple  was  finished  in  the  11th 
year  of  Solomon's  reigu.  How  natural,  then,  that  the  name  of  the  city  of  wor- 
thip  should  be  attached  to  its  temple  of  worship?  How  very  natural  s'uch  ex- 
pressions as  "let  us  go  up  to  Zion.  to  worship  the  Lord  our  God;"  "Zion,  the  city 
of  our  solemnities,"  and  hundreds  of  similar  and  kindred  expressions  that  most 
certainly  and  explicitly  refer  to  the  church  and  its  worship;  but  nevertheless  the 
name  is  borrowed;  its  a  name  of  association,  with  the  military,  which  is  but  the 
strong  arm  of  the  civil  department  of  the  government.  When  the  civil  authori- 
ties fail,  for  want  of  strength,  to  execute  the  laws,  she  is  directed  to  call  on  Zion 
the  military  arm.  for  assistance.  This  fort  was  on  a  hill  of  that  name*  that  over- 
looked the  city  and  vale  uf  Jerusalem,  and  upon  one  end  as  some  suppose,  and 
others  on  a  different  but  adjoining  hill,  was  the  temple  built  by  Solomon,  to 
which  he  removed  the  Ark;  and  the  common  name  of  Zion  attached  to  the  tem- 
ple and  the  hill  on  which  it  stood.  "Tis  perhaps  useless  to  say  more  upon  this 
subject;  for  if  we  should  undertake  to  cite  all  of  the  pointed  passages  in  which 
"Zion"  occurs,  and  that  evidently  are  spiritual,  our  readers  would  tire,  for  they 
are  familiar  to  all  christian  ears;  but  we  warn  all  lobe  careful  not  to  apply  to  spiv-, 
tiv.al  Zion  the  one  half  that  is  said  of  "Zion"  ever  remembering  that  there  are  two. 
Of  the  political  one  Jerusalem  was  called  the  daughter,  or  weaker  member  of  the 
government,  being  strictly  civil.  Of  this  Zion  we  should  like  to  speak  at  large, 
but  cannot  do  so  now.  We  re>erve  tor  ourselves  the  right  to  do  so,  and  shall,  if 
any  see  fit  to  attack  our  position.  We  affirm  again,  most  unhesitatingly,  that 
Zion.  who  travailed  in  the  8ih  v..  lxvi  ch.  of  Isaiah,  was  and  is  the  Confederate 
States  of  America.  And  before  taking  leave  of  national  Zion  it  may  be  well  to 
add  something  further,  while  the  matter  is  in  hand,  and  the  reader's  mind  is  upon 
that  subject,  to  show  that  Zion,  in  its  first  or  original  sense,  is  national.  Isaiah, 
Xth  ch.,  the  Lord  calls  Assyria  the  rod  of  his  anger,  and  staff  of  his  indignation, 
which  he  would  send  agaiu&t  Jerusalem,  a  hypocritical  uation;  saying,  in  the*. 
Uth  v,:  '  Shall  I  not,  as  I  have  done  unto  Samaria  and  her  idols,  so  do  to  Jeru- 
salem and  her  idols?  Wherefore  it  shall  come  to  pass,  that  when  the  Lord  hath 
performed  his  whole  work  [of  destruction,]  upon  mount  Zion  and  on  Jerusalem" 
that  he  then  would  punish  Assyria,  the  nation  that  he  had  used  in  punishing  or 
destroying  mount  Zion.  or  the  Jewish  nation.  This  cannot,  by  any  forced  inter- 
pretation, mean  the  church,  for  Assyria  never  destroyed  spiritual  Zion,  and  that 
too  as  an  instrument  in  the  hands  of  the  Lord.  He  never  has  forsaken  his  spirit- 
ual Zion,  but  he  has  his  national  Zion  ;  yet  not  utterly,  for  he  encourages  them, 
in  the  24th  verse,  saying:  "0  my  people  that  dwellest  in  Zion,  be  not  afraid  of 
the  Assyrian:**  nation  ;  truly,  "he  shall  smite  thee  with  a  rod,  and  shall  lift  up 
his  staff  against  thee"  as  my  agent  to  correct  thee,  but  only  for  a  little  while, 
nnd  in  turn  1  will  scourge  him.  "He  shall  shake  his  hand  agaiust  the  mount  of 
the  daughter  of  Zion,  the  hill  of  Jerusalem."  Jerusalem  was  the  daughter  or 
feminine  pa«r4  of  the  nation,  while  Zion  was  the  masculine  or  strong  arm  of  the 
government.  Isaiah  xxix  ch:  8v\,  the  Lord  mentions  the  disappointment  of 
dreamers,  saying.  "So  shall  the  multitude  of  all  tho  nations  be,  that  fight  against 
mount  Zion."  Here  a  multitude  of  nations  are  represented  as  fighting  aaainst 
mount  Zion.  "We  have  no  evidence  that  any  such  multitude  ever  beseiged  the 
church;  and  in  fact,  we  know  they,  as  nations,  never  did;  but  on  the  other  hand, 
as  nations,  they  have  ever  fought' against  God's  nationality,  anciently  and  mod- 
eraly;  and  it  is  of  said  nation  that  he  here  speaks,  calling  it  "Zion."  Isaiah  xxx 
ch,  God  addresses  his  nation  as  rebellious  children,  rehearsing  their  evil  doings, 
and  their  impotency  before  the  pursuing  enemy,  saying,  17th  v.:  ••Ono  thou 


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of you  "ball  flee  at  ;h*  rtbi.ke  of  one"  of  their  enemies.     Hm  sits,  however,  tb*; 
Ue  will  wait,  that  he  may  b  i  unto  them.     Wtb  v.:  "For  the  people  shall 

dwell  in  Zion  at,  Jerusalem  :  thou  shalt  weep   no  n<  -er  sn  said  or'  th» 

church  on  oar;:.:  a  perpetual  out  and  flgh  tinge  with- 

in are  her  heri  •  e  body.     Her  release  is  at  death,  not  before;  death 

<•!  her  individo  i  tot  in  polity.    Isaiah  x.xxi  ch:  9  v.,  the  Lord 

iu  Zion.  and  Lis  furnaoe  in  •  1  bis  cannot  bo  spiritual. 

Isaiah  xxxiii  ch:  20  v.:  '"Look  upon  Zion,  oar  solemnities  :  thine  ey%*» 

■Bhall  see  Jerusalem  a  qoiel  habitation',  ataberna  de  thai  shall  aft  be  taken  down." 
Zton  and  Jerusalem  are  visible  realities;  they    i  the    Israelitish 

nation.     Isaiah  xxiv  "And  the  ransomed  Of  the  Lord  abail  return.  and 

come  to  Zion  with  songs   unci  everlasting    joy  npon  their  heads  ;  they  shall  ob- 
tain  joy  and  gladness  This  can  uerer 

Zion,  for  she  has  no  such  promises  as  t h i .^ ,  while  eho  is  on 
earth.    It  is  Paid  "they  shall  return."     \\  here  to  '.'  we  would  ask.     Of  course  to  the. 
placo  they  had  gone  out  from.    They  ha  i  goneouMnto  political  bondage  ;  they 
are  h  nrning  "to  their  former  estate," 

as  promise^  in  the  xvi  ch.  of  Eaekiel.     The  church  is  not  a  visible  but  a  spiritual 
existence,  And  cannot  be  in  bon  never  be  from  home.    The  conscience 

return;  but  ;u  all  lands  and  climes  this  kingdom 
is  within,  or  il  is  nol  at  all.    Isaiah  li  ch:  2v.  the  nation  is  addressed  thus  :  "Look 
unto  Abraham  your  lather,  and  unto  Sarah  that  bare  you  :  tori  called  him  alone, 
and  blessed  him,  and  increased  him.    Hearken  unto  me,  my  people  ;  and  giva 
.  ito  me,  0    my  nation.     For  the   Lord  shall  eon  ..  ;it  eomt'ort 

all  her  waste  places  ;  and  he  will  make  her  wilderness  like  Eden,  and  her  desari 
like  the  garden  of  the  Lord."    ':  j  ,,(•••  t  ,  the  point,  but  to 

long  to  cop  i.     [  do  not  say  that  there  arwaot  spiritualities 

iu  thes  .     but  that  in  their  first  and  most  obvious  sense  they  are  na- 

tional; for  the  r<  \  origin  of  the  nation, 

clearly  fast  litical  meaning  asthe  first  one.    Jeremiah  li  ch:  36  v.:-Tbe 

one  to  me  and  to  my  flesh,   be  upon  Babylon,  shall  the  inhabitants  of 
Zion  ly  affair;  that  is.  a  curse  or  malediction  by  one  a 

■     !.  and  Israel  Cowes   Babylon,  calling 
the  sam<  to  fall  upon   Bab}  lien  upon  them;  and  as  Babylon  wae 

clearly  a  nation,  whin!  >  doubts,  and  must  then  suffer  thess   curses  as  a 

nation:  and  if  so,  the  and  if  political  in   the  ons  case,  they 

must  of  n<  i    io  in  the  other,  for  they  were  the  same.    Lamentations  i  ch: 

17  v.:  -Zion  sprcadetfa  fori  Is;  and   there  is  none    to  comfort  ber  :  the 

Lord  hath  commanded  concerning   Jacob  [Zion,]  that   his  adversaries  Khali  b* 
round  about  him;  '  of  couive  to  afflict  them.     Did    God  ever  command   the  ene- 

•     i.    to  circumvent  and  overthrow  his 

p    -  -  .  forth  her  UarJds    in  luppli- 

■  did  and  never  will ;  but   of  national  Zion  this 

in, true  to  the  letter,  and  has  been  oft    rep  ated.     -The  Lord  hath  .  .  .  thrown 

down  nghol*of  the  daughter   of  Judah."  which  daughter  i* 

igbold  isZ'v  Phe  Lord  hath,  aceom  - 

pliahe  I  he  hath  poured  -  sree^nger    and  hath  kindled  a  Kre  in 

Zion,  and  it  hath  devoured  the  foundations  thereof."    Not  bis  church  certainly, 

but  his  nati  -did    thus  visit  with  ■:     Micah,  iv  ch..  speaking 

of  the  'storation  of  his  nation  G.  I  .     :  v.:  -And    many  nt- 

shall  come  and  say,  Come,  and  let  us  go  up  to  the  mountain  [government] 

of  the   Lord,  and  to  the  house  of  tfas  God  of  Jacob;  and  be  will  teach  ua  of  his 

I  walk  la  bis  paths  :  for  the  law  Khali  go  forth  of  Zion,  and  the 

word  of  the  Lord  from  Jerusalem."     "In  that  daw  saith  the  Lord,  will  f  rami* 

•  U.  and  !  will  gather  her  that  is  driven  on^  and  her  that  I 
afflicb  Lord  shall  reign  overftem  in  mount  Zion  from  henceforth 

•von  forever."    Here  we  have  three  personal  pronouns  aat  balibeth,  htr 

•n  out.,  and  her  that  was  afflicted.     They  are  gathered  inn-  c 
pH  mount   \  .  .  three  are  thf 


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identical  three  jn  the  xvi  cb.  of  Ezekiel,  called  Jerusalem.  Samaria  and  Sodom, 
and  known  to  be  the  Israelitish  nation  in  its  divided  State,  but  soe.n  $o  be  joined 
to  sever  no  snore;  and  joined,  are  called  Zion.  This  can  in  no  sense  be  applied 
to  the  Church,  for  she  is  ever  one,  and  never  divided  into  throe  churches,  more  or- 
less.  H  v.,  "And  thou,  O  tower  of  the  flock,  [and  further  called  "the  strong- 
hold of  the  daughter  of  Zion;'*  Jerusalem  was  the  daughter  of  Zion,  and  Zion  was 
the  sire ng!« old  of  the  daughter,]  "unto  thee  [Zion]  shall  it  come,  even  the  first 
dominion."  The  first  dominion  was  Ephraim,  for  he  wa3  call:  d. the  first  born  of 
God.    Jeremiah  xxxi  T  am  a  father  to  Israel,  aid  Ephraim  is  ray*  firsi 

bom"  nation,  lie  has  the, first  role  or  dominion;  but  in  the  "latter  day?' the 
dominion  passes  into  the  hands  of  Zion,  and  as  EphraiuPs  dominion  was  strictly 
a  political  one,  and  passes  »S  such  to  Zion.  it  follows  that  Zion  was  political,  by 
v/hich  we  mean  national.  "Therefore  they  shall  come  and  sing  in  the  height  of 
Zion,  and  shall  novr  together."  They  had  been  apart,  but  now,  having  flown  to- 
gether, they  are  to  remain  one  upon  mount  Zion  forever,  whil^  David  reigns  as 
king  forever  over  them.  In  4he  ii  Psalm  God  says  he  had  set  his  king  upon  the, 
holy  hill  of  Zion;  and  that  being  set,  he  should  break  all  nations  with  a  'rod  o^ 
iron;  should  dash  them  in  pieces  as  a  potter's  vessel.'  This  m  Christ,  the  king, 
and  not  Christ  the  great  High  Priest.  A  king  sits  upon  a  throne;  a  priest  standi 
before  the  altar.  The  office  of  a  king  is  to  rule  nations,  and  if  need  be,'" dash  them 
to  pieces.  The  office  of  a  priest  is  quite  different  :  to  offer  sacrifice  for  sins.  So 
the  person  in  this  Psalm  is  Christ  the  king,  sitting  as  such  upon  the  political  height 
of  Zion,  or  upon  the  throne  of  Jerusalem,  which  is  the  throne  of  his  kingly  father 
David,  and  according  to  oft-repeated  promises  is  never  to  end.  Klviii Psalm,  2  v.: 
"Beautiful  for  situation,  [has  a  locality:  the  church  has  not,]  the  joy  of  the  whole 
earth,  is  mount  Zion,  on  the  sides  of  the  north,  [which  is]  the  city' of  the  great 
King."  (Not  the  great  priest.)  "God  is  known  in  her  palaces  for  a  refuge. 
For,  lo,  the  kings  were  assembled,  they  passed  by  together.  ,  They  saw  it.  and  eo 
fJoey  marvelled  ;  they  were  troubled,  and  hasted  away.  Fe»r  took  hold  upon 
them  there,  and  pain,  as  of  a  woman  in  travail."  Why  "all  this  fear,  pain,  travail, 
&.C..  upon  the  part  of  the  assembled  kings,  who  were  political  personages,  on  be- 
holding the  "towers  of  strength"  and  the  impregnable  bulwarks  of  Zion  1  Why, 
we  say,  if  she  was  simply  a  spiritual  existence,  such  haste  to  get  away  from  her? 
She  would  not  harm  them,  but  do  them  good.  Nay,  she  was  the  ""city  f of  the 
great  king,"  a  mighty  political  fabric,  before  whose'power  they  quaked  and  "hast- 
ed away."  Psalm  lib",  C  v.:  "Oh  that  the  salvation  of  Israel  were  come  out  of 
Zion  !  When  God  bringeth  back  the  captivity  of  his  people,  Jacob  shall  rejoice, 
»nd  Israel  shall  be  glad."  The  personalities  in  this  passage  are  all  national, and 
so  must  be  Zion.  Psalm  lxix,  35  v.:  "God  will  Rave  Zion,  and  will  baild  the  cit- 
ies of  Judah  ;  that  they  may  dwell  there,  and  have  it  in  possession.  The  see^j 
also  of  his  servants  shall  inherit  it :  and  they  that  love  his  name  sballf  dwell  there- 
n."  Building*,  cities,  possessions,  &c,  are  local  and  visible  things;  they  belong  ' 
to  nations  and  not  to  the  church.  Psalm  lxxviii  ch:  67  v.:  "Moreover  he  refus- 
ed the  tabernacle  ei"  Joseph,  and  chose  not  the  tribe  of  Ephraim  •.'•"but  chose  the 
iribo  of  Judah.  the  mouni  Zion  which  he  loved.*  He  chose  David  a!*o  his  servant 
.  .  .  to  feed  Jacob  his  people."  This  is  most  clearly  and  unmistakably  nation- 
al; and  Psalm  lxxxvii  is  like  it:  'jThe  Lord  loveth  the  gates  of  Zion  more  than 
all  the  dwellings  of  Jacob.  Glorious  things  are  spoken  of  thee,  0,-eity  of  God. 
And  of  Zion  it  shall  be  said,  This  and  that  man  was  born  in  her  :  aud^the  highest 
himself  shall  establish  her." 

We  forbear  to  add  more,  at  present,  as  we  shall  have  to  give  over,  at  some 
point,  and  as  well  here,  as  to  add  further;  for  our  limits  forbid  us  to  say  one 
fourth  that  might  be  said  of  national  Zion.  Of  spiritual  Zion  it  is  not  our  pur- 
pose, in  these  notes,  to  speak;  and  besides,  she  has  her  untold  thousands  to  sound 
her  praise  abroad,  while  political  Zion  has  none,  among  all  her  sons,  to  tell  U3 
of  her,  so  far  as  we  know.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  there  are  two  Zions,  one 
national  and  the  other  spiritual;  two  characters  of  Jews,  one  national  and  the 
ot  tier  spiritual  :  two  Jerusalem^,  one  national  and  the  other  spiritual;  two  de- 
;nts  to   God's  government,   one  nation*!  and  the  other  spiritual;  two  na- 


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found  iu  bia  creature  wan.   one  101  ial  or  national,  and   the  othi 
He  may  be  *  national  Jew  or  1-  -.         .\\y,    -^  ;s  ttot 

a  Jcti-  who  i*  one outwardly:  but  he  i 
Itually.    "All  are  not  Israel  who  aia 
re   not  spiritual  U 
utward"  and  national,  and  the  otbei  .  nward    • 

outward    i 
•  ard  or  lutleiblt*  ;  fche  make 

.    There  are  two  ] 
spiritual;  ono   visible,  and  the   other  ini 

;  earth  are  to  be  burned  up  ;  the    spiritual,  n 

sed,  ii  strictl)  national,   and  ch  if  those  bui 

He  who  looks  for  a  literal  I  urning  up  of  he  iven  and  sarth   will  look  in  vain, 
teaches  no  such  thing.    The  burning  is  pel  .   ;0. 


CHAPTER    TWELFTH. 


WS  wi11  ^ow  D0tice  a  prophecy  that  applies  to  the  pn 

,''       things  in  tin  ites,  and   whai  m  soon  tofo        

I"  ,;'(;  *>  l  •  jinning  at  the  3rd  terse.     Mr.  B  -  han- 

dled this  prophesy  ably,  but  bas  misapplied  it  to  "Hungary."    We  shall  : 
and   copy  h'v.a  when  I  .   and  then  make  our  .1.     "And  I 

will  give  power  unto  my  two  witnesses,  and  they  shall  prophecy  a  thousand  two 
hundred  ant   three-score  days,   clothed  in  These  are   the  two  olive 

.  landing  bel  And  far- 

ther ca  'two*  prophets/' and  th  or  tne  "two  sons 

of  oil.'     The  two  witi  0  prophets,  two 

anointed  ones  or  the  i     ■  the  same   things;    ; 

dual  Israel  of  God."    The  two  olive  trees  mentioned  b  v.  ch.,)  and 

grees   with  the  so 

Uriah  mentions  two  candlesticks  with  seven 

br*»ches,  a  two  olive   trees  as   standing  together,  and 

ibly  the  two  ano  Laialy 

the  double  :.  Pitual  and 

wfter  of  God's  law,  a  nature,  as  a  spiritual  and  p 

om  the  two 

.  and  the  perpyt- 

onefthls  doutt  !     and    its  constant  oc- 

alone  to  th  )\  evidence  that 

the  two  witnesses  represent  the  doubla  -  oi  the  pei-  L,  and  can 


„..«<Uth  ... 

torn  less  pit  shall  make.  .;[  overcome  them,  and  kill  them. 

And  their  dead  bodies  shall  lie  in  the  itreet  of  the  great  city,  which  spiritually 
pt,  where   also  our  Lord  was  crociied.''    Thia  ic 
bo  named  in  the  xri  ch.  of  Ezekiel,  and  there  called  a 
and    kingdom  we  have  elsewhere  she;.  1  to  be  Washington 
-  name  to.    This  U  the  on! 
►reper  name,  by  whi 
tes  and  teachings  oi   Chris: 
aviour,  are  Baid,  in  scriptural  1  rucify 

:..:me."     To  crucify  is  to  kill  or  cause  death. 
What  has  tl  rament,   in  1  .    •   its  present  ruleri 

'-0  kill  and  totally  dostroy  God's  Israel,  in   Church  and  State 

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bare  they  exlorted  unwilling  oaths  from  others,  that  they  did  not  intend  to  keep 
when  taken?  They  do  thus  daily  crucify  our  Lord.  'And  they  of  the  peopU 
kindreds  and  tongues  aud  nations  shall  see  their  dead  bodies  three  days  and  an, 
half,  and  shall  not  suffer  them  to  be  put  in  graves.''  TJiis  was  a  great  indignity 
offered  them,  in  refusing  burial.  It  is  used  iu  scripture  to  represent  dishonor 
and  disregard.  "And  they  that  dwell  on  the  earth'*  [a  very  common  name  for 
the  old  Roman  Empire,  or  .all  "Europe,]  "shall  rejoice  over  them,  and  make  merry, 
aud  shall  send  gifts  one  to  another  ;  because  these  two  prophets  [two  witnesses] 
tormented  them  that  dwelt  on  the  earth,'1  (Europe.)  It  is  well  known  how  all 
European  monarchies  rejoice -at  the  present  state  of  things  in  the  new  world, 
Let  them  rejoice  and  send  gifts,  for  their  days  of  rejoicing  are  numbered,  and 
their  last  sands  are  in  motion  to  their  final  falling  from  the  glass  of  nations  as 
monarchies.  "And  after  three  days  and  an  half  the  Spirit  of  life  from  God  en- 
tered into  them,  and  they  stood  upon  their  feet ;  and  great  fear  fell  upon  them 
which  saw  them.'"  '-This  resurrection  in  three  days  and  a  half  is  to  occur  about 
four  or  five  years  after  their  overthrow." — Baldwin.  They  first  simply  staud 
upon  their  feet;  which  is  at  the  end  of  three  and  a  half  days,  How  long  they 
stood,  it  is  not  said,  before  "They  heard  a  great  voice  from  heaven  saying  unto 
them,  Come  up  hither."  A  voice  from  heaven  is  a  voice  from  God's  word,  who 
has  ever,  through  his  word,  by  the  .Spirit's  agency,  taught  us  our  national  duties 
and  rights,  as  well  as  our  spiritual  duties  and  rights;  and  as  God's  double  charac- 
tered Israel  is  here  said  to  be  dead,  they  both  arise  at  the  call  of  God.  through 
his  word,  "and  ascend  to  heaven  in  a  cloud, "  or  en  mass,  as  -'a  great  cloud  of 
witnesses,"  a  spontaneous,  concerted  movement  of  the  heretofore  dead  witnesses, 
who  in  their  organic  forms  are  one  each,  and  thus  they  are  the  two  witnesses  :  but 
individualized,  they  are  many,  and  move  as  one  cloud,  not  as  two  clouds.  They 
did  hot  ascend  on  a  clow],  but  in  the/orm  of  a  clov'd — a  common  figure  in  scrip- 
ture for  a  moving  mass  of  people.  Ascending  to  heaven  is  simply  going  back  to 
the  Bible,  or  giving  heed  to  the  voici;  of  God's  teachings,  nationally  and  spiritu- 
ally, and  re-organizing  their  fallen  government  under  God,  and  purifying  their 
church,  and  acknowledging  him.  in  the  person  of  Christ,  as  king  over  one  and 
high  priest  over  the  other,  and  forever  renouncing  "higher  law-ism."  and  all  the 
hell-isms  they  have  heretofore  been  guilty  of  believing  and  teaehiug,  which 
caused  their  death  for  three  days  and  a  half;  chief  of  which  is  "Abolitionist." 
"And  the  same  hour  was  there  a  great  earthquake,  and  the  tenth  part  [ten  part*} 
of  the  city  fell,  and  in  the  earthquake  was  slain  of  men  seven  thousand;  ,and 'the 
remnant  were  affrighted,  arid  gave  glory  to  the  God  of  heaven."  Earthquakes 
symbolized  insurrections,  upheaviugs  of  the  people,  battles,  &c.  Here  was  evi- 
dently an  insurrection  followed  by  a  bloody  battle,  symbolized  by  the  slaying 
of  seven  thousand,  a  definite  number  for  an  indefinite  one,  which  is  of  very  com- 
mon occurrence.  And  as  the  battle  occurred  the  same  how  that  the  witnesses,  as 
a  cloud,  ascended;  and  as  the  result  of  the  earthquake  was  the  failing  of  ten 
parts  of  the  city  or  government  in  which  the  witnesses  had  lain  dead,  it  follows 
that  the  ten  parts  that  fell  of  the  nation,  was-  the  identical  cloud  that  ascended. 
This  ascension,  or  arising  into  a  pure  organism,  as  a  people,  necessitates  their 
Reparation  from  the  former  organism,  as  we  (the  C.  S.)  had  done  before  them; 
aud  that,  too,  before  we  were  slain  by  the  bloody  beast.  We  seceded  in  full  life; 
they  have  to  secede  aud  re-organize  before  they  can  have  national  life.  They 
are  first  given  life  enough  to  get  up  and  stand  on  their  feet,  and  then  9,9  a  cloud 
to  mount  up  to  national  independence,  tftrough  a  bloody  conflict,  which  amounts 
to  the/.;;.7/  of  the  former  government  in  ton  of  its  States  [  after  which,  what  is  left 
of  the  old  city  or  government,  are  called  a  "remnant,"  who  also  become  affrighted 
at  their  own  enormities,  and  give  glory  to  God,  thus  signifying  thas  they  will 
become  pure,  governmentally;  the  third  and  last  of  the  three  noticed  before,  in 
commenting  upon  the  xvi  ch*.  of  Ezekiei.  The  reading  is  "the  tenth  part  of  the 
city  fell:"  This  we  deem  an  error  in  translation  ;  for  if  only  one-teritb  Ml;  the 
remaining  nine-tenths  could  not  very  properly  be  called  a  "remnant;"  but  when 
we  consider  the  States  now  in  the  C.  S.,  and  ten  more  to  secede  in  the  great  West, 
tfhat  would  still  be  leit   behind  would   properly  be  called  a  "remnant,"     J»«w. 


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m  to  the  timfl  of  the  •teessiM  of  Wu  States  iu  tb.»  W«-*t.  v?.j  ;Mafc  to.*  rfu/wK  .  .  . 
may  ttke  pine*  as  earl?  n*  the  4th  of  aeptemWer.  1864  :  but  jf  not  then,  by  ai- 
ding one-seventh  more  of  time,  for  Sabbaths,  uoi  oou  ivil  measure,  and 
we  are  brought,  exactly  to  the  4lh  of  March.  1865.  Then  taking  Mr.  Baldwin  a* 
authority  lor  th"  length  of  time  from  the  death  of  the  "twoYt  me 
ascension,  (we  setting  the  time  of  the  death  on  the  4th  of  .March,  1861.)  it  will 
take  place  the  last  days  of  November,  1865;  and  it  so,  then  withiu  about  thirteen 
months  thereafter,  or  January,  1867,  we  may  expect  a  graud  exaltation  of  th-.* 
whole  nation,  to  its  final  resting  place  or  "throne  dominion;'1  or  this  last  date  may 
be  the  time  that  the  "remnant'9  becomes  affrighted, and  by  a  re-orgauizatioo  of  a 

I  oyercment,  ''give  glory  to  God/'  which  they  cannot  do  as  a  nation  q    - 
ruptii  .  now  are.     Giving  glory  to  God  as  a  v.itioa — that  i •;.  in  a  m 

al  or  political  capacity,  as  such — requires  first,  thai  the  government  in  its  I 
mental  Laws  Bhajl   conform  to  the  Bible,   theocratic,  confederate,  states-rights 
republic;  and  being  tuns  organized,  not  to  disregard  and  trample  upon  the  law, 
but  to  administer  the  -  >d'a  agents,  and  not  in  their  own  rights,  for  "All 

power  in  heaven  and  earth  is  his."     ^o  to  give  glory  ;o  (Jod  na  ■   es  not 

require  that  every  individual  in  the  government  should  be  a  Christian,  though 
mon  certainly  thia  would  be  better,  and  bring  unmeasured  fullness  of  glory  to 
God;  not  only  politically  but  spiritually  also.  So  then  to  become  a  patriot  in- 
'  requires  that  he  should  reign  in  the  affections,  which  would 
always  insure  his  reigning  over  the  nation.  We  shall  confidently  look  f 
States,  in  the  West,  fo  secede,  and  organize  a  theocratic,  confederate, 
rights  (or  iStat.es  sovereigncy,)  government,  as  early  as  the  1st  ot  December. 
1866,  if  not  earlier;  and  that  the  then  remainiug  States,  called  a  "remnant,*'  shall 
also  re-organize,  as  the  two  preceding  nations  will  have  done  :  and  tl 
thus  dyne,  the  three  governments,  being  thus  alike,  the  two  latter  will  confed- 
erate with  the  former,  the  C.  S.,  and  become  "One  nation  upon  the  mountain* 
(States)  oi  Israel  forever,  and  David  BfaalJ  be  king  over  them  for  evermore."  ;•:<•* 
zxxvii  oh.  Ezekiel,  from  the  16th  verse  to  the  end  of  chapter.  This  union  upoa 
the  ( 'onfedenite  States,  or  the  "new  Jerusalem.''  we  think  v. ill  take  place  about 
January,  lSt>7  ;  but  if  not  so  early,  it  positively  will  at  no  very  distant  day:  and 
that  very  soon  thereafter,  the  "battle  ot  the  great  day."  or  ••Armageddon."  will 
be  fought  by  Israel  united,  as  above,  against  the  combined  representatives  of 
monarchy  :  and  Judah  being  victorious,  monarchy  falls  to  rise  no  more,  and  the 
mitten  i  republican  royalty,  with  God  in  Christ  tfs  its  acknowt- 

edged  head  and  author,  stands  forth  no  Longer  as  a  promise,  hui  avei  aliztd 

fact.  The  ''Throne  of  David."  over  all  Israel,  thus  re-appears,  and  all  that  was 
promised  to  the  house  and  throne  of  David,  that  was  not 'realized  in  the  old  dis- 
pensation, will — to  every  jot  and  tittle— be  fulfilled  under  this,  the  new.  dispen- 
sation. In  the  thousand  years  reign  that  follows  the  peace  of  "Armageddon, ,: 
Christ,  nc  the  kingly  son  and  heir  of  his  father  David's  throne,  will  reign  by  rep- 
resentatvpes;  but  at  the  ending  of  the  thousand  years  his  second  advent  occurs, 
and  then  in  his  visible  human  person  he  reigns  forever  on  earth  as  a  King.  Then, 
and  not  until  then,  may  we  cease  to  pray  ••Thy  kingdom  come,  on  earth."  H« 
comes  the  second  time  tritfund  a  sin  ottering,  lie  came  the  dust  time  with  a  sin 
offering,  and  having  offered  it  as  1  High  Priest,  he  said  "it  is  finish 

Ml  priestly  offering  was  complete.  "There  remaineth  no  move  sacrifice  for  sin." 
He  h-vd  ng  >n  his  second  coming,  as  u  king,  to  offer  a  sacrifice  fur  si  an. 


CHAPTER    THIRTEENTH. 
CHRIST  THE  KING,  AND  HIS  KINGDOM. 

C<!1F!I>T  is  off  times  called  a  king,  and  perhaps  as  off,  called  th?  £on  of  David. 
/     Why  called  a  kin?,  if  he   is  no  l<inp°     A  king    ^as  one  thing  and    a  priest 
another:  nel  v^  I  indeed.     One'waa   me  political  head  of  the  nation; 


^ 


tfie  oaher  was  the  Bpirltu*)  head  of  the  church.    Why  was  h?  called  Darid.'a  sob. 

;  such  as  a  king?    He  was  too  far  removed,'  in  point. of  time,  to  be  caHed 

tirse  ef  generation  ;  and  besides,  it  is  specifically  said 

Ghost."     There  was  not  one  drop  of  David's  "blood 

U  ;d  through  bis  mother  ;  and  the  genealogy  was  never 

of  the  house,  but  utter  tbetnaie  side.     It  is  saM 

Very  well;  that  is  all  we  claim.     A 

fl  in  contradistinction  t©  a  heavenly  or  spirit- 

a  Priest.    The  kingly  office   is  not  a  spirit- 
lb  iy  or  fleshly  one.    Christ  himself  refers  to  his  sonship 
j  the  Pharisees  "how  it  was  that  David  by  the  spirit 

.ord,  while   yet  he  was  called    Davids  sou  ?M     They 
(  :.  for  they  would  not  see  or   receive   him  as  either  king  err 

l  il  sense*be  was  David's  Lord,  but  in  an  official  sense  he  waa 

o.     This  makes  the  matter  quitegplain  to  ail  who  are«williag  to  receiye 
:  and  king.    We  Bay,  then,  that  Christ  was  David's  son  officially 
He  is  the  son  of  David  in  the  very  same   sense   that  all  of  his 
i  e  fi'i  m  Solomon  to  the  last  king  that  sat  upon  the  throne  of  Jeru- 
11  called  David>  sons,  and  were   Bftidfto -{siUiipon* David's 
was  David's,    the  king  that  sat  upon  if.  was  David's 
■'■:  bo  might  not  have  had  one  drop  ot  David's  blood  on  father  or 
house,   in  his  veins.    Because  it  has  been   said  "a  fountain 
ittess  has  been  opened  up  in  the  house  of  king  David,''  many 
I  as  a  priest  is  the  son  of  David,  for  the  "fountain"  evidently 
Ji— the  shedding  oi  his  blcod  for  the  redemption  of 
11  that  is  meant  by  this  is  that   the  high   priest,  in  his  personal 
—having  been  promised  that  in  his  birth    he  should   come  by   a 
virgin  should  be   of  the  house  and   lineage  of  David,  in  the 
lifts  he  came  out  of  the  loins  of  his  father  David,  as  promif  ed. 
to  be  the. son  of  David  as  a  priest,  for  St.  PaulAsettles  that 
p»int  I  :.  according  to  khe  law,  no  priest  was  to  be  of  Judah.    Ju- 

I  ;d  never  hi  id  in  no  sense  could  be  called  a  priest? 

and  as  such  the  father  of  Christ.    Christ,  as  the  son  of  God,  was  a  priest  :  as  the 
,  he  was  a  king.    Ghrifet,  as  was  Melcnizedek,  was  made  a  priest  by 
:.ordlugto  the  law.     His  priestly  office    was  held   oulside*of  the 
regular  succession,  under  Aai  tee  he  was  not  David's  son  in  this  sense,  yet 

hew»s  in  ^>me  one,  and  in  the  one  we  have  befere  named  ;  that  is,  officially  as 
a  king;  ana' as  David's  throne  was  to  stand  forever — not  Lis  spiritual  throne,  for 
d  none  Buch — it  follows  that  some  one  must  sit  upon  it  as  his  regal  heir  and 
representative,  on  this  very  earth  of  ours,  and  not  in  the  spiritual  abode  of  the 
tfal.  Ail  of  the  symbols  and  figures  ©1  David's  throne  fasten  it  to  earth, 
and  to  talk  otherwise1  would  ba  sheer  nonsense.  The  throne  in  heaven  is  not 
David's,  but  God's,  the  Eternal.  And  furthermore,  David's  throne  on  this  earth 
is  also  God's:  and  David  and  his  successors  reign  but  as  God's  representative? 
on  earth.  We  will  further  notice  the  significant  fact  that  David  was  anointed  to 
the  kingly  office  three  different  times;  thus  signifying  that  he  should  reign  over 
three  nations;  or  rather  that  he  should  have  three  distinct  reigns  ;  but  as  he  has 
had  only  two  reigns;  the  first  oyer  the  house  of  Judah  for  seven  years  and  fix 
moaths,  and  the  second  over  the  whole  house  of  Israel  tor  seventy-three  years, 
it  follows  as  a  necessity  that  hi*  regal  son.  somewhere  in  his  line,  should  reign 
i..  dor  his  first  anointing  ;  and  as  none  of  his  kingly  sons  did  reign  under  his  first 
anointing,  which  was  ordered  by  God  at  the  hand  of  Samuel — for  each  of  them 
reigned  ur,:  citing— it   farther  follews   that  Ms  kingly  son  Christ 

must  and  will.    This  specific  anointing  by  God  cannot  b«  lost  ;  was  not  useless  ; 
and  will  be  effectual.    Thus  the  "'first   anointing  becomes  the  t  last,'"  and 
the  "last  king  becomes  first, "  in  point  of  importance.     This  anointing  sealed  the 
Covenant  with  the  house  of  David  as  a  house  of  kings  ;  it  has  never  been  abi 
ted  or  annulled,  as  was  a  former  one  with  the  house  of  Saul.     ' 

chosen  and 


. 

.  ,.a-rr  io  lc  Ir&en.    "1  bate  foui  d  David  my  servant;  with  my  holy  oil  have 

latedhim."     But  as  lie  did   aoti  under  1 

fiuthcr  meaning  than  to  the  p<  rson  D 

be  "Davidra  greater  ?on;;  I 
over  (ho  whole  I 
two  anointipgsby  the  hous 
who  sits  and  reigns  or  rulra  a^  I 

.--.  the  abip'of  atate  to    and  through  the  •  - 
reijn,  as  the  representative  of  Christ  I 
and  purpoaea,  no  matteMtohat  maybe  ' 
Smith"  or  "Billy  Jones.       Yet  it  is  a*  I  worthy  ol 

that  tho  first  Chief  Magistrate  of  the 

I  bear  a  same   bo  very  nearly  David  :  Davit.     . 
m4  you  have  it.    Doubtless  in  their  etem<  I 
off  from  the  first1  er  the  reign  of  I 

established  the  first  kingdom  ol  Judah  or  Jerusalem.     Davia  br. 
second  kingdom  of  Israel   under  the  reign  of  b^r  flrai 

lorn  of  Jerusalem,    la 
David  left  tho  fii  ad  organized  th  ;  •  house  o'  . 

came  down 

reigned  over  "all  Isarel   a 

same  time  niter  Dun's  left  the  second  ccm8 

down  to  the  capital  of  Jeff.    Davis,  a  fchd  then  he  or 

his  successor  will  reign  over,  or  admin  |  Israel  and 

Judah  :"  at  which  time,  and  fori  r,  the  kingd  ll  Israel  will  be 

Judah'a  or  David's,  who  was  of  tho  tribe  of 'Jr.."  •  its  will  bs 

'•Israelites."    This  wiil    >:•  ith   and  last  compact,  or  last, confederate 

head  of  tho  nation,  and  haa'nofsnecessor,  and  mi  .ar. ' 

We  have  passed  throngh  with  the  Israel  of  God  in  its  six  steps  of  asceafe  up 
to  the  teat  or  throne,  which  is  the  seventh,  and  is  nol  i    -were  the  ether 

six.    The  sixth  and  last  step  brought  the  m  JaboP  or  travail  to  a 

point  at  which  it  might  Bit  down  upon  the  seventh  ele  i  one  of  rest  and 

one  of  rule  or  "dominion."    Steps  always  indicate   a   forward  movement;  and 

sent  are  upward  ats,  which  is  ever  lal  i 

standing  ;  and  as  long  a:s  sending  and  moving  attitudes  are  maintained 
journey  is  not  finished;  the  goal  not.  obtained  ;  the  na  or.  until  is 

its  s "at—  a  position  of  reft— upon   the  Eeventh  ai  ch  i3 

not  a  step,  but  the  throne  to  which  the  six  steps  lead.     Tfc  conformi- 

ty with  what  wo  hav  !  Baidof  God,  who  is  the  author  of  this  govern; 

uithor,  it  m  •  its  father   in  some   particular  :  and  a*  it  is  im- 

possible for  it  to  be   like  God  in  any  other  particular  than  that,  that  man  is  as 

:  noted,  it  must  bo  like  him   in  numbers  ;  that  is,  the   government   is  one, 
and  only  one,  though  we  have  seen  that  it  has  hud  'Jhrei  h 
under  t^e  first  or  typical  dispensation,  and  that  it  will   have  U  -nder 

this,   the  realizing  d  finning ;  but  these   .'  .'-first 

make  bat  c,v:  and  the  same  thing— the  seventh  and  last  compact,  jasl  i 
ti  inity  of  attributes  and  the  trinity  of  persons  made  but  one*and  the  same  God, 
who  is  the  seventh  and  last  form  of  the  Godhead.    The  kingdom  of  Israel  under 
Epir?  ftrst  step  in  point  of  time  and  numoorj;  the  jdom  under 

Judah  is  the  second  step  in    time  and  number  ;  the   kingdom   of  Sodom,  united 

-  of  America,  or  :  in  order  and  number 

typical  dispensation.    Now  thej  first  settler j  of  the  second  Set  of  th: 
set  was  on  the  West  side  of  Jordan,  strictly  within  thelandofCai 
and  represents  himself  nationally,  and  as  he  is  found  to  be  in  the  promised 

'.  we  have  a  right  to  expect  the  nation  he  represents  to  ulh.; 

\  (7?  soon  as  iid  Bettlerwaq  the/our 

©fae.ttl  I  time,  he  is  ■    Bt  side   of  Jordan,  or  : 


^ 


are  to  follow  him.  he  must  of  nc  i  step  ol   aseent,  or  first  a3 


\W)  two  remaining  iottl<  t 
iaTii 


io  local  position  to  the  threne;  for  be  it  borne  in  niiud  that  "Sodom  and  Samaria" 
are  to  b«  given  unto  Judah  or  Jerusalem  for  daughters.  Tbe  stick  of  Israel,  ia 
tine  hands  of  Ephraim,.  is  to  be  joined  to  the  stick  of  Judah,  and  not  the  stick  of 
Judah  to  Ephraim.  The  movement  must  be  up  to  her:  she  must  hold  a  higher 
position  on,  tin1  as-ending  steps  than  Ephraim  at  Mauassah.  And  as  Ephraim 
was  the  second  settler  on  the  West  side  of  Jordan,  he  must  be  the  second  head 
of  the  nation  under  the  new  or  realizing  dispensation,  and  as  such  occupy  the 
fifth  step  chronologically,  a*  well  as  fifth  as  to  number  ;  while  Manasseb.  still 
being  left,  behind,  is  tbe  third  and  last  settler  on  the  West  side  of  Jordan,  of  the 
second  Bet  of  three?,  and  must  come  after  Ephraim,  and  take  the  fourth  step  as 
to  number,  but  the  sixth  as  to  time,  lie  theu  comes  to«pbraim.  and .Ephraim, 
with  his  brother  ManaSseh,  comes  to  Judah  and  becomes  one  with  Judah,  and 
then  as  cue.  they  all  take  the  final  seat  upon  the  throne,  or  form  the  seveuth  or 
last  compact  of  confederation.  "The  lion  of  the  tribe  of  Judah"  has  guarded 
crery  step  of  this  government,  from  the  first  to  the  last.  It  is  his  own.  'Tia  he 
that  at  ths  end  of  the  thousand  years  will  sit  upon  the  throne  forever. 

We  take  Solomon's  splendid  throne,  made  of  ivory  and  gold,  that  was  to  be 
reached  by  a  flight  of  six  steps,  and  each  step  guarded  by  a  brace  of  lions,  to 
type  or  figure  forth,  the  kingdom  of  Israel  in  all  of  its  steps  of  travel  or  journey- 
ing*, from  its  inception  to  final  triumph  or  ''throne  dominion"  under  OhrlitHhe 
great  national  redeemer  of  earth.  And  as  Judan's  national  standard  bare  the  sign  of 
the  lion,  and  thus  became  his  distinctive  national  mark,  and  made  him  the  lion  or 
chief  tribe  of  the  Israelitish  nation,  and  as  Christ  is  called  "the  lion  of  the  tribe 
of  Juclah"—  that  is,  as  Judah  was  the  lion  tribe,  Christ  wa3  the  lion  of  that  tribe, 
tbe  chief  or  head  of  it— it  follows  that  he  is  the  "chief  ruler"  that  was  promised 
should  come  of  that  tribe.  If  being  the  lion  tribe  made  Judah  the  _  head  tribe, 
certainly  Christ,  being  the  lion  of  that  tribe,  made  him  the  head  of  it  in  the  same 
tense  that  Judah  as  a  tribe  was  the  head  of  the  nation  ;  aud  as  Judah  was  not  the 
spiritual  head  of  the  nation — for  Levi  was  that — but  was  the  political  head,  it 
follows  inevitably  that  "the  lion  of  the  tribe  of  Judah  "  was  the  political  bend  of 
that  tribe  ;  and  it  the  head  of  tbe  head  tribe,  he  certainly  was  of  all  of  the  tribes . 
And  the  fact  that  ''two  lions'-'  stood  upon  each  step  of  the  ascending  nation  under 
its  various  heads,  guarding  and  watching  it,  with  a  jealous  eye,  to  final  or  "throne 
dominion:"  and  the  further  fact  that  "two  lions"  stood  as  guards,  one  on  either 
side  of  the  very  throne,  proves  that  the  "lion  of  the  tribe  of  Judah"  has  ever  beea 
with  "the  nation,  as  a 'guard,  guide  and  protector,  anft  will  so  guard  while  be' sits 
upon  his  throne  on  earth  forever.  The  future  of  this  throne  under  "the  Prince 
of  the  house  of  David."  we  leave  for  more  gifted  hands  to  portray.  I  trust  some 
Ingram.  Baldwin  or  Gumming  will  take  the  pleasing  task  in  hand,  and  burn  into 
living  lines  of  flame  the  glowing  course  and  goal  of  the  "Chariot  throne  of  Christ" 
"whose  wheels  roll  in  tire." 

'Tis  high  time  that  we,  as  a  christian  nation,  should  look  well  to  our  profes- 
sions as  such,  and  be  careful  that  while  we  theoretically  receive  Christ  as  our 
spiritual  head,  we  do  not  reject  him  as  our  national  bead.  We  are  commanded 
to  "kiss  the  Son,  lest  he  grow  angry  with  us,  and  we  perish  from  the  way  ere  hi» 
auger  be  kindled  but  a  little."  (From  memory.)  We  are  only  disposed  to  do 
half  honors  to  Christ,  and  that  half  rather  theoretically  than  otherwise.  ^  We  are 
professedly  a  christian  nation,  but  practically  we  are  largely  deists.  We  in  our 
thanksgiving  orders ,  official  reports  of  victories,  leading  state  papers,  &c,  ac- 
knowledge, as  deiats,  a  God,  but  as  christians  who  should  ever  "give  thanks 
unto  God  the  father,  through  Jesus  Christ  his  son,"  we  fail— fall  far  short  of  duty 
in  this  respect.  We  are  taught  in  the  Eible  that  all  *cur  mercies  and  blessings 
flow  from  God  the  Father  through  the  Son,  by  and  with  tbe  agency  and  assistance 
of  the  Spirit ;  and  if  all  blessings,  then,  national  as  well  as  spiritual,  for  we  are 
.-w  dependent  in  the  one  as  the  other,  and  it  becomes  us  as  a  dependent  nation  to 
honestly  and  humbly  acknowledge  ourselves  as  such,  and  call  upon  God  through 
Christ,  for  all  that  we  need  as  a  nation.  "Christ  wag  manifested  to  destroy  tbe 
works  of  the  devil;"  and  if  na^onal  sins  and  iniquities,  and  all  their  consequences 
zi  ft  eel  tie  work;--  of  the  Perff  I  would  like  pome   of  oar  wis'?  e&vtni  to  inform 


<7 


^ 


«s  vrbo  i«  tbt  anther  *f  them,     A*u  if  there  be,  then,  national    boa  m 
wh  H  not  as  ueedful  that  a  ;  tacriflce  be  made  for  ti;   i 

^dividual  or  f- jiri . ual  ^i  m  !  i'  r  ■  Bin  commil 
acts  of  'he  guilty  _e  its   nature  from  sin 

■  -  :    t  .     ;  ■  •  . 

•r  than  the  offender  n  i  d,andthes 

ier.  and  ;od,  in  the 

Aud  this  we  say  Chi  ii 
two-fold  nature  of  mat 

.f  a  willing  BacriQce  I 
tlfta  fhri  all,  wi'.l  ». 

ofereo 

■ 

been 
prom 
born  of  Jfud 

3,"    <;•  liif  :    aud 

doubtles?  they'w 
of  in-;. 

w«  hare  Bhown  in  cha]  I  and 

executed  as  a  political  c  spiritual 

teaching,  it  folio 

crime  ailed^ed  was  t:  .  king  in  opp  it,  he  then  — 

must  of  necessity  hav<  ion.    And* 

ae  he  i  to  political 

rificc  lor  the  political  iniq 

the  shedding  fpolitical'or  spiritual  offences;   so  hii 

was  two-fold  in  hi  ■  o-fold  in  ]  - 

the  national  redemption  ol  earth  :  as  a  pries 
kion  of  the  m 

the  garden,  "-ily  soul  is   exceeding  sor 

man,  representing  the  king,  peri,      -  I  l  for  the  national  re- 

demption, a.-   said  redempl  .    '  man.  in 

suffering,  i  red  more  largely  into  the  ^uul'.s 

redemption,  a-  th  le  or 

spiritual.     "The  soul  U  Bin" 

such.    God  compels  no  man 
but  ha*  m  id  -:vae.:% 

But  the  time  is  :.■  ..   u  all  will  lie  req  is  or 

folio ivcr^  ol  ■  ill,  --  king,  -rule  all  nations  with  a  rod  of 

iron,'   and  if  need  be,  I  tad  briug  all  under  his  kingly  ra  must 

be  "dash<>d  to  pieces,  a;  a  potter  i  I  that  happy d  ty  !    All  of 

the  ancient   Israeli  tish  people  were  required  to  be  genuine  national   I 
but,  not  required  to  be  spiritual  Israelites.    "All  are  not  Israel  who  are  oi  1-: 
"and  he  is  not  a  Jew  who  is  one  outwardly:  but  he*isajew  who  is  one  inwardly." 
-.  a  man  may  be  a  Jzw  in  a  national  or  out  a  Jew  iu 

a  spiritual  or  inward  sense.     We  uie  compelled  to   be    good  citizens  aecordii;  i 
the  law,  but  not  compelled,  yet  invited.  t'>  tx  -  in  a  spiritual  seu.-e.    The 

absolute  requirement*  .»;  the  law  have  not  been    met  by  all  citizens;  but,  ■■- 
fore  Ffafpd,  the   time  forok  will  be  brought  to 

bear  in  such  cases,  and  'dashing  to  pieces'  will  be  resorted  to,  it  milder  means 
fail;  for  "all  rule  and  authority  "  musl  go  by  the  board,  save  that  of  God  inCLrist, 
and  Christ  in  his  representatives,  until  he  comes,  whose  right  alone  it  is  to  rule. 
To  be  a  good  citizen  requires  more  than  to  be  &<  .  0.     We  must  be  ; 

tiveii/,  actively  so:  cannot  fold  our  arms  in  lis  erence,  and  let  matters  go 

wrong:  by  default,  for  want  of  a   proper  d"ieiis<j  or  prosecution.     That  lalse  and 
Feas<dei?s.  jet  common  saying,  that    -what  is  every    man's  business   is  no  in::n  -; 
"•ist  by  ignored  and    set  aside,  and  rather   say.  What   is  §my  ' 


43 

business  is  ever  •  ness;  tend  it  should  be  and  is  so  ia  relation  to  nai, 

affairs,  of  which  we  an  .:.     And  we  have  a  very  instructive  lesson  upon 

Ibis  subject  given  us  by  inspiration,  viz  :  when  the  wicked  men  in  the  tribe  of 
Benjamin  wort;  to  '■  e  judg  i  for  bh'i  r  conduct  toward  the  journeying  Levite,  and 
fcisconeubii  fused  to  give  them  up  for  judgment,    then  the 

Whole  nation  made  war  op  in.  and  put  them  to  the  sword,  man,  ic 

and  child,  six  hundred  only  escaping  to  the  rock  Rimmon  for  safety.  And  after 
this  severe  judgmeat  npon  tke  whole  tribe  for  the  sin  of  the  few,  (which  Bin,  how- 
ever, became  the  Bin  of  the  whole  by  their  refusing  to  have  them  dealt  with.)  it 
was  found  on  examination  that  one  city  had  not  come  up  to  assist  in  the  execu- 
tion of  the  law  upon  Benjamin,  and  then  the  embattled  host  of  all  Israel  turned 
their  bands  against  that  city,  and  slew  every  one,  save  four  hundred  young 
women;  thas  showing,  most  clearly*  what  was  the  political  law  of  the  landg 
that  when  a  crime  had  been  committed  by  any  one,  and  the  tribe  or  community 
in  which  he  or  they  lived,  refused  to  surrender  him  or  them  for  punishment, 
they  thereby  endorse  the  criminal,  and  make  his  sin  their  sin;  and  by  doing  so 
were  made  to  sttffi  "or  the  same,  as  if  thoagh  they  had  committed  it;  and 
howihg  th«t  no  m  in  e>r  set  of  men  had  any  right  to  tail  or  refuse  to  come 
up  to  assist  in  the  execution  of  the  law  against  the  offender  ;  if  they  did,  they 
also  mast  sutler  tin  same  punishment  due  tho  first  and  second  offenders.  There 
are  to  be  no  rie%trala  ;  yo  ty  ot  inactivity  tells  unmistakably  on  which 

side  you  belong,  and  you  will  be  held  to   account  accordingly.    If  you  are  of 
Israel,  you  must  act  the  full  part  of  an  Israelite.    He  that  is  not  on  our  side,  is 
| of  the  contrary  part.     "He   that  is  not  with  me  is  against  me;"  "and   he  that 
"gtatnereth  not  wj  sattereth   abroad."    We  have  said  elsewhere  that  the 

Isfaelitlsh  people  made  three  distinct  settlements,  and  at  three  distinct  periods  of 
time,  in  organizing  their  govern -none,  and  that  the  too  first  settlements  consisted 
k  trfbes  each,  and  that  the  third  and  last  settlement  consisted  of  seven  tribes. 
We  have  endeavored  to  show  the  tcy   of  these  two  first  settlements,  viz  : 

that  tke  first  settlement  of  three  tribes  on  the  East  side  of  Jordan  was  typical 
cr  non-realising,  as  they  did  not  cross  the  Jordan  and  enter  into  the  promised 
land  of  Canaan,  and  as  said  settlement  consisted  of  three  tribes1,  we  mast  take 
each  one  of  those  tribes  to  represent  a  confederate  head  of  the  nation,  and  in  the 
order  in  which  they  are  named  :  Reuben,  first;  Gad,  second;  and  Manasseh  third; 
arid  that  fche  character  given  te  them  was  to  bo  the  character  of  the  confederate 
heads  that  they  severally  represented  chronologically.  The  second  settlement  of 
three  was  oa  the  West  side  of  Jordan,  strictly  within  the  land  of  Canaan,  and  thus 
indicates  realization  of  the  various  promises  of  nationality;  but  as  thsy  were 
three  in  number,  and  only  on*  confederate  nationality  or  "nation"  made  up  of  a 
"company  of  nations,"  waa  promised,  (though  it  was  oft  repeated.)  it  follows  that 
they  each  represent  a  confederate  nationality,  as  the  first  three  did,  and  also  chro- 
nologically, as  named  in  settlement; — Judah  first,  Ephraim  second,  and  Manasseh 
third.  And  as  there  was  ultimately  to  be  but  one  nation,  these  three  nations, 
represented  by  the  three  tribes,  must  unite  or  ultimate  in  oae,  and  their  blended 
character  is  to  be  the  character  of  said  nation.  And  as  Judah  was  the  fourth  set* 
tier,  and  first  on  the  West  side  of  Jordan,  or  land  of  Canaan,  we  conclude  that  the 
fourth  nation  of  that  peculiar  theocratic,  states'  right,  confederate  form,  that 
should  arise,  would  necessarily  be  Xh.a  first  in  the  realizing  age.  or  on  the  West 
side  of  the  great  political  Jordan;  and  as  the  C.  S.  is  the  fourth  government  of 
tiaat  peculiar  type  that  has  arisen  in  the  history  of  the  world,  we  claim  it  to  be 
the  first,  as  Judah  was  the  Srstin  the  land  of  promise^  and  if  so,  it  is  Judah  cr 
Jerusalem.  It  is  the  beginning  of  the  realization  of  the  promise  to  tho  fathers 
and  patriarchs  ;  it  is  the  re-appearance  of  the  throne  of  David,  that  was  to  uever 
end.  Ephraim  was  the  second  settler  on  the  Yf est  side  of  Jordan,  s©  we  may 
look  for  his  confederate  head  to  appear  next.  Manasseh  is  the  third  aad  last,  and 
must  follow  Ephraim,  as  Ephraim  is  to  follow  Judah  ;  and  they  both  are  to  be 
joined  to  Judah,  and  thus  form  the  seventh  or  last  compact. 

We  will  hot,  for  the  first  time*  consider  the  third  and  last  settlement  of  the 
en   of  Israel,  which  Settlement  consisted  of  seven  tribe.-.    This  settlement 


fcfc 


41 

was  iu  the  promised  land  of  Canaan,  and  formed  only  a  part  of  the  three  typical 
heals  of  the  nation:  and  as  the  nation  itself  was  typical,  this  settl  iment  was  also, 
as  was  the  six  tribal  settlements  that  bad  gone  before  it.  It  oould  not  b  •  uu ,>- 
posed  to  be  without  typic  \\  m  •  i  li  ug,  slnca  all  g  »:  is;  b  ifore  it  are  Bh  >wn  t  >  be  so: 
and  if  so,  its  anti-type  in  i  :;,;.t-<   type.    An  1   is  tii « 

tribes  of  Judah,  Epiraim  and  l|au\sseh,  Who  formed  ttleuimt  on  the 

ucfe  of  Jordan,  ar    nail  to  typj  I        •  IimI;  tut  ./:  ■ 

named— -one  only  of  which  has  appeared  as  yet — the.i  th/3    •  ■■ 
oanthis  32ttlem ?nt  of  1 1  in   whit  seme  is  it  a  type.' 

thai    il  ••  p  •-•  w  th   ati  emph  i  lis  nit  to  be  mist i;< !  i. 
America;  an  1  that  it  typ  m  it  iu  n  im/tsrs.  a  id  a)1,  ia  eh  ira;;  sr,  foe  th  • 
of  the  C  S.  bis  already  been  typ-'  I  !>y  b'l ;  trib  )Q?  Ju  li'i    h  well  .  •  >  i  >!- 

ogy.    A3  we  we  have  seen  th  it,  as  )  1 1  i!i  w  u  t!i  ■  I  i  i 

i  iu  the  or  1  )V  of"  n  itio  l*,  t%U  •-  fo  ra  or  I  ■  ,>  •:  (unci,  as  th  ;  1  wt 
settlement  of  the  nation  was  seVen  Trib  ;sor  ©iateui  id  u'it-!  •  tio  i, 

so  in  like  m  inner  its  fl.ial  or  n  »liz'n  ;  hex  1  should  .t^iJir  i  ru- 

ber of  Tribes  or  States  ;  for  bo  it  over  i»  ».a  ;  i  i  m  i  1  :  i  i     loiw'thslavii  i 
healj-pf  E  ihraim  aid  Minisseh  are  yet  toa*0!ii\    tb  »y  di  :  ■  redUinj 

u>ul:r  ihisc  heiis.  but  must  be  m  jrged  into,  and  form  apart  of,  the  uitio  i  ua  I  *r 
Judihs  head,  which  alone  Is  the  realizing  head;  fur,  as  b  cd,  the 

promise  wai  only  cue  "nation  a  id  a  con.)  i  ly  of  uatio  i- "'     1  .: :  sto  i  •  th  i 
cut  oat  of  the  muuntain  without  h  in  Is  was  to  hi 

the  while  eirlh  —  was  ro  leave  no  room  tor  any  <»:  a  •  -,-  nation.  .  ru- 

ber, then,  u  id  ;r  which  si) »  was  to  app  i  ir  vv  •    si  •  ■  /.  a  ■  i ;  and  it 

matters  not  what  number  Bhe  may   now  hive,  orraiy    i  tin  to,  her 

type. could  only  give  her  birth  uuraber,   her  coara  •'•■  •    l . -:  i  by 

the   trjbe  of  Judah.     Nov/,  as  all    agree  that   the  II  ■!  arch 

and  Soato  v  to  'Mr  in a'<i  ag  rh  •  i-pd- 

Is  there  not  siguifieancy  ia  timse     iree  a 
both  as  to  time  and  nurab.igrs,  a.3  well  as  tb  local  position, 
ideotly,  a  world  ofmea  itng  in  ; '        • 

■'^vmy   politic  il  Jord  in    h  • 
tere.d  and  crossed.     \V  :  have  no  right  to  attach  ooj  iai  to 

Spirit  of  inspiration  h  din  the  sacred  bjok  1 

:is  for  <>ar  "comfort/'     For  -'\ll    scripture  i-  given  by  i.i;(-  '<  nl.atrl  i>* 

ible."  (S  •..  but  how  caa  if  pro*  e  \  to  us,  u  dess  we  <  iv  •  li      I 

teachings  np  >a  all  subj  »eta  it  treats  upo  i  if  So  we  u.-a'd  do  well  t )  "se  irch  iho 
Bcriptures,"'  which  implies  more  th  an  a  casual  reading  of  them  There  is 
another  significancy  in  this  last  -:"t  I  •  a  nt  that  we  wUl  a  itice.  [1  is  this  :  The 
nation  from  il-  begiuuiug.  to  linal  throne  »1  )tniaio.i,  was  to  ]n-s  through  or  oc- 
cupy seven  positions,  which  we  nave  already  noticed.  Henu  ■  we  t  ike  <-ch  tribe, 
fnthialisl  settl  jgi'io.i  severally  and  ia  the  chronological 

imed  in  the  settlement :  the  Qrst  named  to  type  the  firs'  step  or  posi- 
tion; the  e  d  step;  and  so  on  to  the  seventh  settler  in  this  last 
settlement;  audw  Dun  is  the  seventh  and  la9l  settler,  he  will  properly  represent 
the  seventh  i  apact  of  the  nation  both  in  character  and  chronologically. 
Does  he  do  it?  We  answer  that  he  doe-.  .He  was  the  seventh  chronologically, 
and  thus  mirks  the  seventh  head  of  the  nation;  and  as  this  seventh  head  was 
onder  Judah.  tr,.  ;  of  Judah  Bhould  be  found  in  Dan,  who  typed  him. 
Let  n  md  see  the  character  given  to  Dan,  as  it  should  correspond  with 
Judah.  Who  b  i  rftpre  •  h:  16  v.:  l,Dan  _'•  his  people  as 
one  of  the  tribed  ofIsrael.,J  Deuteronomy  \\  \iii  ch?  __'  v.,  "Dan  is  a  lion's 
whelp;"  and  it  a  lion's  whelp,  he  must  be  a  lion  in  very  deed.  Here,  as  iu  the 
<-.\<>'  ol  G  i  i.  (wh  >  typ  -d  Jud  ih  u  'st  head.)  we  Qnd  the  distinctive  lion 
andla  feature  of  Judah  ia  given  to  Dan,  while  we  know  at  the 
*ame  time  that  D  ^  givelmo  to 
ion.  I  know  it  will  besaid  thai  -  one  of  the  judges  of  Israel,  teas  of 
ibe  of  D  i  >  We  admit  it;  but  that  does  n<  •  [nVrement  of  the  quo- 
.  :  "Dan  thall  judge  his  ]«e  >pic  as  one  of  the  trihed  of  Israel:'*  not  as  a 


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Individual  judges  arose  out  ofrarious  tribes,  but  only  three  trihes  as  suck  ever  judged 
Israel,  and  they  were  Judab,  Ephraim  aud  Manasseh;  and  all  that  is  here  said  of 
l)au  is  said  of  him  as  a  tribe,  aud  not  as  to  individuals,  else  it  might  be  said  of 
perhaps  every  tribe,  that  he  shall  judge  Israel.  Dan  stands  here  as  the  type  of 
Judah's  final  head,  aDd  all  that  is  said  ot  him  is  applicable  to  Judah,  and  to  no, 
one  else— it  must  be  placed  to  his  credit,  and  his  only — to  Judab  the  great  lion, 
]aw-giver  and  judge  tribe,  that  gave  birth  to  the  '-Lion  of  the  tribe  of  Judah," 
who  is  to  "rule  all  nations  with  a  rod  of  iron"  So  we  see  this  whole  national 
settlement  by  settlements,  ami  settlements  by  tribes,  and  the  tribes  by  character 
and  chronology,  as  well  as  by  numbers,  km  been  typicat. 

Much  more  might  be  said,  in  argument  upon  this  hiad,  but  we  suppose 
enough  has  been  said  to  make  out  self  understood,  and  call  the  attention  of  tai- 
eated  investigators  to  the  subject,  who  s-hill  be  able  to  do  it  full  justice,  either 
pro  or  con.  We  do  not  shun  or  feaf?  investigation  upon  any  of  the  po-utiois 
taken,  or  views  advanced; — but  rather  court  a  thorough  review  and  criticism, — 
if  we  have,  in  our  ignorance,  laidj  ourself  liable  to  such  a  handling.  And  on  the 
other  hand,  if  we  are  correct,  let  those  who  are  competent  to  show  the  facts  fully 
— who  by  their  character  and  position  will  command  that  attention  that  will 
not  be  accorded  the  unknown  and  unlearned  — take  the  matter  in  hand.  We  say, 
let  learning,  take  thu  facts,  and  clothe  them  with  a  name  that  will  give  them  ac- 
cess to  all,  and  take  the  errors  and  scatter  them  to  the  four  winds  of  heaven. 


Note  to  Chapter  Third 


Fear  lest  we  may  be  understood  as  saying,  in  Chapter  Third,  that  raau  ia 
his  creation  did  not  receive  a  spiritual  likeness  of  God.  we  will  add  that  he  cer- 
tainly did  receive  such  a  likeness,  &nd  lost  it  in  the  fall.  But  said  likeness  -'was 
not  the  very  image"1  of  ho' 'mess,  that  his  Maker  possessed;  'twas  only  a  resemblance 
in  point  of  holiness,  for  God  in  all  bis  attributes  is  infinite,  and  man  in  all  his  is. 
finite;  and  there  is,  strictly  speaking,  no  comparison  between  that  that  i<  finite 
aud  that  that  is  infinite.  Man.  after  his  order,  was  created  perfect,  aud  so  far  he 
iyas  like  God,  or  possessed  his  image  of  holiness,  and  no  further. 


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To  Publishers. 

T?e  purpose  placing  our  Pamphlet  upon  the  table  of  every  Publisher  that  we- 
can  have  access  to,  through  the  mails.  Will  they  reciprocate,  by  sending  us 
their  publications  for  a  short  time  ?  at  least  such  numbers  as  may  contain  any 
notice  that  they,  or  any  one  else,  may  think  proper  to  give  us,  pro  or  con. 


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•Gath"  read  t;Gad;"  page  22,  5  lines  from  top,  for  -47()6"  read  "177(1;''  page 
23,  3  linr s  from  top,  for  **  macn  "  read  "  much  ;"  page  32,  22  lines  from  top,  for 
'•disabled"  read  "dissolved."  Several  minor  typographical  errors  we  will  not 
refer  to,  as  the  reader  can  readily  detect  them. 

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